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Meaning of IMMEDIACY

Pronunciation:  i'meedeeusee

WordNet Dictionary
  1. [n]  lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage"
  2. [n]  the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
  3. [n]  immediate intuitive awareness

IMMEDIACY is a 9 letter word that starts with I.


 Synonyms: immediate apprehension, immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness
 Antonyms: mediacy, mediateness
 See Also: celerity, directness, intuition, quickness, rapidity, straightness



Webster's 1913 Dictionary
\Im*me"di*a*cy\, n.
The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium;
immediateness. --Shak.

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