immediacy
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5.8
- noun
- /ɪˈmiːdiəsi/
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inmediatez
- The prayers of black Christians for deliverance resonated with the immediacy of their liturgical identification with biblical history.
- immediacy of effect
- sense of immediacy
- illusion of immediacy
So it is like the immediacy of an individual right now.
- So it is like the immediacy of an individual right now.
- And then that sort of takes you out of the immediacy of the conflict.
- It's been, you know, the urgency, the immediacy of coming.
- We're only present to our expectations of what is needed, not to the immediacy of what we're experiencing.
- And as with all such sources, the great advantage is vividness, immediacy.
- It didn't quite have any kind of immediacy to to me, you know, it didn't speak to me yet.
- And that's where you realize the immediacy of all of this is so counter to imagining the scenario.
- Why go back to sense certainty, this immediacy, right?
- So he says that first reflection out of immediacy when Mittelbach, right.
- Well, this this perception, that of immediacy of in response to anything.
- So I think that there's that immediacy.
- And one thing that I decided was like, I don't have an immediacy for this, like for this surprise.
- And what people do is they don't make the decision because they think the payoff has to be tomorrow, immediacy, or the payoff has to be complete.
Examples
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Both Peterson and my mother, as writers, give a sense of immediacy, of the truth of an experience.
Fiction book (1997) -
Once again, students benefit by recognizing the immediacy of current facts and issues.
Academic text (1993) -
So it is like the immediacy of an individual right now.
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That choice increases the immediacy of our experience.
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We're only present to our expectations of what is needed, not to the immediacy of what we're experiencing.
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We need an ecophilosophy that speaks the truth with great immediacy in language that everyone can understand.
Academic text (1991) -
One interviewee said, "most users love links; they prefer the immediacy they provide."
Academic text (2012) -
The immediacy of this present resembles the immediacy of oral storytelling.
Academic text (1993) -
Twitter demands brevity and immediacy, creating a kind of journalism that's shorter and quicker than ever.
Academic text (2011) -
The immediacy of the news prompted officials to respond quickly.
Synonyms
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3.5
Doing something quickly and at the expected time
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9.5
Acting quickly without delay when action is needed
Happening right away with nothing in between
Happening immediately without any delay
Quick action that happens immediately
Quick and efficient action that gets work done
Antonyms
How Immediate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word immediacy comes from the parts im- 'not' and medius 'middle', so it originally meant 'not in the middle' or 'with nothing between'. So, immediacy is about something direct or happening right away, with no delay.