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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun immediacy has 3 senses

• immediacy(n = noun.attribute) immediateness - lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage"
is a kind of directness, straightness
Antonym: mediacy

• immediacy(n = noun.cognition) immediate apprehension - immediate intuitive awareness; Array
is a kind of intuition

• immediacy(n = noun.attribute) immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness - the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
is a kind of celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness

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THESAURUS

immediacy

accessibility, actual presence, alacrity, approach, approximation, availability, being here, being there, case of need, closeness, confines, contiguity, contiguousness, convergence, decisiveness, dire necessity, dispatch, environs, exigence, exigency, existence, expedition, expeditiousness, foreground, hereness, immanence, immediate foreground, immediateness, imperative, imperativeness, indwellingness, inherence, instantaneity, instantaneousness, matter of necessity, momentaneousness, momentariness, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, occurrence, physical presence, precinct, predicament, presence, pressingness, pressure, promptitude, promptness, propinquity, proximity, punctuality, punctualness, purlieus, quickness, rapidity, readiness, simultaneity, speediness, spiritual presence, summariness, swiftness, thereness, ubiety, urgency, urgent need, vicinage, vicinity, whereness

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Instantaneity

N instantaneity, instantaneousness, immediacy, suddenness, abruptness, moment, instant, second, minute, twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time, epoch, time, time of day, time of night, hour, minute, very minute, very time, very hour, present time, right time, true time, exact correct time, instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt, discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate, subitaneous, hasty, quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash, rapid as electricity, speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift, lively, blitz, rapid (velocity), instantaneously, in no time, in less than no time, presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice, in one's tracks, right away, toute a l'heure, at one jump, in the same breath, per saltum, uno saltu, at once, all at once, plump, slap, at one fell swoop, at the same instant, immediately, extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, no sooner said than done, just then, slap-dash, touch and go, no sooner said than done.

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