immediacy
pronunciation
How to pronounce immediacy in British English:
UK [ɪˈmi:diəsi]
How to pronounce immediacy in American English:
US [ɪˈmidɪəsɪ]
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- Noun:
- lack of an intervening or mediating agency
- immediate intuitive awareness
- the quickness of action or occurrence
Word Origin
- immediacy (n.)
- c. 1600, from immediate + -cy.
Example
- 1. Gtd 's simplicity , flexibility , and immediacy are its attraction .
- 2. We pay for authenticity and immediacy in drugs .
- 3. With twitter and facebook , there is immediacy .
- 4. In this manner the notion has being as its simple self relation , or as the immediacy of its immanent unity .
- 5. All these forms agree in adopting as their leading principle the immediacy , or self evident way , in which a fact or body of truths is presented in consciousness .