IMMEDIATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immediateness mean? 

• IMMEDIATENESS (noun)
  The noun IMMEDIATENESS has 2 senses:

1. the quickness of action or occurrence

2. lack of an intervening or mediating agency

  Familiarity information: IMMEDIATENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMEDIATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("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)

Sense 2

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 ("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)

 Context examples 

Also to be reckoned with, was the immediateness of his attack.

(White Fang, by Jack London)