English noun: immediacy | |||
1. | immediacy (attribute) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | ||
Samples | The immediacy of television coverage. | ||
Synonyms | immediateness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | directness, straightness | ||
Attribute | immediate, mediate | ||
Antonyms | mediacy, mediateness | ||
2. | immediacy (cognition) immediate intuitive awareness | ||
Synonyms | immediate apprehension | ||
Broader (hypernym) | intuition | ||
3. | immediacy (attribute) the quickness of action or occurrence | ||
Samples | The immediacy of their response. The instancy of modern communication. | ||
Synonyms | immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness | ||