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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 | ||
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