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INSTANTANEOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does instantaneousness mean?
• INSTANTANEOUSNESS (noun)
The noun INSTANTANEOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quickness of action or occurrence
Familiarity information: INSTANTANEOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("instantaneousness" is a kind of...):
celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)
Derivation:
instantaneous (occurring with no delay)
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