From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immediacy \Im*me"di*a*cy\, noun The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" [syn: {immediateness}] [ant: {mediacy}]
2: immediate intuitive awareness [syn: {immediate apprehension}]
3: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn: {immediateness}, {instantaneousness}, {instancy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "immediacy": accessibility, actual presence, alacrity, approach, approximation, availability, being here, being there, case of need, closeness, confines, contiguity, contiguousness, convergence, decisiveness, dire necessity, dispatch, environs, exigence, exigency, existence, expedition, expeditiousness, foreground, hereness, immanence, immediate foreground, immediateness, imperative, imperativeness, indwellingness, inherence, instantaneity, instantaneousness, matter of necessity, momentaneousness, momentariness, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, occurrence, physical presence, precinct, predicament, presence, pressingness, pressure, promptitude, promptness, propinquity, proximity, punctuality, punctualness, purlieus, quickness, rapidity, readiness, simultaneity, speediness, spiritual presence, summariness, swiftness, thereness, ubiety, urgency, urgent need, vicinage, vicinity, whereness
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