immediacy
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5.8
- noun
- /ɪˈmiːdiəsi/
- 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
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Watch on YouTubeSo 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
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8.9
Happening immediately without any delay
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8.6
Quick and efficient action that gets work done
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8.1
Happening right away with nothing in between
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9.9
Quick action that happens immediately
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.