INSTANTANEOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does instantaneously mean? 

• INSTANTANEOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb INSTANTANEOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. without any delay

  Familiarity information: INSTANTANEOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTANTANEOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without any delay

Synonyms:

in a flash; instantaneously; instantly; outright

Context example:

he was killed outright

Pertainym:

instantaneous (occurring with no delay)

 Context examples 

The little picture was so instantaneously dissolved by our going in, that one might have doubted whether it had ever been.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She caught it instantaneously; and recovering her courage with the feeling of safety, soon added, more composedly, "Are you acquainted with Mr Elliot?"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her heart instantaneously at ease on this point, she resolved to lose no time in particular examination of anything, as she greatly dreaded disobliging the general by any delay.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

That the hair was her own, she instantaneously felt as well satisfied as Marianne; the only difference in their conclusions was, that what Marianne considered as a free gift from her sister, Elinor was conscious must have been procured by some theft or contrivance unknown to herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Instead of being sent for out of the room, and seeing him first, and having to spread the happy news through the house, Sir Thomas, with a very reasonable dependence, perhaps, on the nerves of his wife and children, had sought no confidant but the butler, and had been following him almost instantaneously into the drawing-room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Instantaneously, with the consciousness of existence, returned her recollection of the manuscript; and springing from the bed in the very moment of the maid's going away, she eagerly collected every scattered sheet which had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground, and flew back to enjoy the luxury of their perusal on her pillow.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)