immediacy

Noun

Meaning

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

instancy immediateness instantaneousness immediate apprehension speed approach adjacency immediately presence importance immediate gravity neighborhood availability acceleration
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Antonyms

mediacy dally distance eventually slow gradually
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Hypernyms

intuition rapidity directness straightness quickness celerity

Examples

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. Muhammad Iqbal

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. Paul Muldoon

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now. Sri Chinmoy

What, now?” "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. Iain Banks

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit; Too close immediacy an exhaustion. Theodore Roethke

It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy. Alan Lightman

Close letter words and terms

immechanically immedeatism immediable immediate immediate access immediate access storage