immediacy

Meanings

Plural: immediacies

Noun

• lack of an intervening or mediating agency
  • "the immediacy of television coverage"
• immediate intuitive awareness
• the quickness of action or occurrence
  • "the immediacy of their response"
• The quality of being immediate, of happening right away.
• Lack of mediation; directness.
• Immediate awareness or apprehension.

Synonyms

immediate apprehension, immediateness, instancy, instantaneity, instantaneousness, plainness, unambiguousness

Antonyms

mediacy