IMMEDIACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immediacy mean? 

• IMMEDIACY (noun)
  The noun IMMEDIACY has 3 senses:

1. lack of an intervening or mediating agency

2. immediate intuitive awareness

3. the quickness of action or occurrence

  Familiarity information: IMMEDIACY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMEDIACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of an intervening or mediating agency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

immediacy; immediateness

Context example:

the immediacy of television coverage

Hypernyms ("immediacy" 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)

Antonym:

mediacy (the quality of being mediate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Immediate intuitive awareness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

immediacy; immediate apprehension

Hypernyms ("immediacy" is a kind of...):

intuition (instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quickness of action or occurrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

immediacy; immediateness; instancy; instantaneousness

Context example:

the instancy of modern communication

Hypernyms ("immediacy" is a kind of...):

celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)