Immediacy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immediacy \Im*me"di*a*cy\, n.
     The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium;
     immediateness. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  immediacy
       n 1: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy
            of television coverage" [syn: {immediateness}] [ant: {mediacy}]
       2: immediate intuitive awareness [syn: {immediate apprehension}]
       3: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of
          their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
          [syn: {immediateness}, {instantaneousness}, {instancy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "immediacy":
     accessibility, actual presence, alacrity, approach, approximation,
     availability, being here, being there, case of need, closeness,
     confines, contiguity, contiguousness, convergence, decisiveness,
     dire necessity, dispatch, environs, exigence, exigency, existence,
     expedition, expeditiousness, foreground, hereness, immanence,
     immediate foreground, immediateness, imperative, imperativeness,
     indwellingness, inherence, instantaneity, instantaneousness,
     matter of necessity, momentaneousness, momentariness, nearness,
     neighborhood, nighness, occurrence, physical presence, precinct,
     predicament, presence, pressingness, pressure, promptitude,
     promptness, propinquity, proximity, punctuality, punctualness,
     purlieus, quickness, rapidity, readiness, simultaneity, speediness,
     spiritual presence, summariness, swiftness, thereness, ubiety,
     urgency, urgent need, vicinage, vicinity, whereness