IMMEDIATENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Lack of an intervening or mediating agency

Example:

the immediacy of television coverage

Synonyms:

immediacy; immediateness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("immediateness" is a kind of...):

directness; straightness (trueness of course toward a goal)

Attribute:

immediate (having no intervening medium)

mediate (acting through or dependent on an intervening agency)

Derivation:

immediate (very close or connected in space or time)

immediate (having no intervening medium)

Meaning:

The quickness of action or occurrence

Example:

the instancy of modern communication

Synonyms:

immediacy; immediateness; instancy; instantaneousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("immediateness" is a kind of...):

Derivation:

immediate (performed with little or no delay)

immediate (immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect)

immediate (of the present time and place)