Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition or quality of being immediate.
- noun Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness.
- noun Something immediate, as in importance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the quality of being
immediate , of happening right away - noun lack of
mediation - noun philosophy immediate
awareness orapprehension
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun immediate intuitive awareness
- noun lack of an intervening or mediating agency
- noun the quickness of action or occurrence
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Examples
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Prof. Carl G. Jung refers to what he calls the immediacy of the Negro race.
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Such immediacy is clearly going to overwhelm any subtle long-term psychological effects.
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If true, this would give a certain immediacy for any effort to fracture the insurgency.
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This immediacy is due in no small part to another artist I'd never really taken seriously enough: Penélope Cruz.
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The immediacy is far scarier than simply telling someone about being held captive.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Allison Brennan 2006
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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.
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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.
November 2005 2005
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"The sense of immediacy is quite important in blogs."
December 2004 2004
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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.
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Their sense of immediacy is not the same as we adhere to in Canada and the US.
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