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IMMEDIATENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lack of an intervening or mediating agency
Example:
the immediacy of television coverage
Synonyms:
immediacy; immediateness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("immediateness" is a kind of...):
directness; straightness (trueness of course toward a goal)
Attribute:
immediate (having no intervening medium)
mediate (acting through or dependent on an intervening agency)
Derivation:
immediate (very close or connected in space or time)
immediate (having no intervening medium)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quickness of action or occurrence
Example:
the instancy of modern communication
Synonyms:
immediacy; immediateness; instancy; instantaneousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("immediateness" is a kind of...):
celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)
Derivation:
immediate (performed with little or no delay)
immediate (immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect)
immediate (of the present time and place)
