noun
1. lack of an intervening or mediating agency (Freq. 6)
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the immediacy of television coverage
• Syn: ↑immediateness
• Ant: ↑mediacy
• Derivationally related forms: ↑immediate (for: ↑immediateness)
• Hypernyms: ↑directness, ↑straightness
2. immediate intuitive awareness (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑immediate apprehension
• Hypernyms: ↑intuition
3. the quickness of action or occurrence (Freq. 1)
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the immediacy of their response
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the instancy of modern communication
• Syn: ↑immediateness, ↑instantaneousness, ↑instancy
• Derivationally related forms: ↑instant (for: ↑instancy), ↑instantaneous (for: ↑instantaneousness), ↑immediate (for: ↑immediateness)
• Hypernyms: ↑celerity, ↑quickness, ↑rapidity, ↑rapidness, ↑speediness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.