Immediacy

Word IMMEDIACY
Character 9
Hyphenation im me di a cy
Pronunciations /əˈ-/

Definitions and meanings of "Immediacy"

What do we mean by immediacy?

The condition or quality of being immediate. noun

Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness. noun

Something immediate, as in importance. noun

The character of being immediate. noun

Direct relation or connection; freedom from any intervening medium. noun

Specifically, the condition of being in direct relation with a head or chief; the feudal rank next to that of the suzerain. noun

In metaphysics, direct presence; spontaneous existence, not dependent on anything; absolute or non-relative being. noun

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. noun

The quality of being immediate, of happening right away noun

Lack of mediation noun

Immediate awareness or apprehension noun

Immediate intuitive awareness noun

Lack of an intervening or mediating agency noun

The quickness of action or occurrence noun

The quality of being immediate, of happening right away.

Lack of mediation; directness.

Immediate awareness or apprehension.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Immediacy

The word "immediacy" in example sentences

Prof. Carl G. Jung refers to what he calls the immediacy of the Negro race. ❋ Unknown (1930)

Such immediacy is clearly going to overwhelm any subtle long-term psychological effects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If true, this would give a certain immediacy for any effort to fracture the insurgency. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This immediacy is due in no small part to another artist I'd never really taken seriously enough: Penélope Cruz. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The immediacy is far scarier than simply telling someone about being held captive. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It occurred to me then that an RSS-only publishing tool, though it may seem daft to some now, could become an ideal publishing platform for many purposes where immediacy is all that matters. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"The sense of immediacy is quite important in blogs." ❋ Unknown (2004)

To me, the immediacy is key and provides a venue for contributors like myself, who would not tolerate being edited, as my opinions are sometimes considered “way out there”. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Their sense of immediacy is not the same as we adhere to in Canada and the US. ❋ Unknown (2000)

As many critics have observed, one of the stylistic techniques employed by letter-writers to give the impression of presence and immediacy is to mimic the informality of oral speech (Altman 136, Porter 4, Lowenthal 29-30). ❋ Unknown (2000)

"And those savings would be over the long term, as opposed to just the short-term immediacy of having a million dollars in our pocket, because that would not happen."

As for your comment the newspapers provide 'immediacy' - are you kidding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the basis of difficulties like these, it has sometimes been concluded that the idea of immediacy or givenness is hopelessly obscure, with the implication being that there is no reason why the perceptual awareness of physical objects should not be itself regarded as epistemically fundamental, not needing to be justified by appeal to a more basic awareness of sense-data or of anything else. ❋ BonJour, Laurence (2007)

Historically, most of those (beginning with Descartes and Locke) who have attempted to answer this question have concluded that it is something other than a physical object that is given, but the reason for this conclusion cannot be understood without becoming clearer about the idea of immediacy or givenness itself. ❋ BonJour, Laurence (2007)

Nor, for that matter, is it clear why, if some sort of item in experience did have this status, this would show that the awareness of it is more fundamental in the way that the idea of immediacy or givenness seems to suggest. ❋ BonJour, Laurence (2007)

There's no narrator, and the effect is one of great immediacy, which is very appropriate to the material. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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