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Immediacy

noun

Lack of an intervening or mediating agency. Synonym: immediateness.

Immediate intuitive awareness. Synonym: immediate apprehension.

The quickness of action or occurrence. Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness. "The instancy of modern communication"

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"Immediacy" Quotes from Famous Books

... farther, traveled longer and over darker country, than any man who'd ever lived before. He wanted a meal at his own table, a kiss from his wife, a word from his son, and later to see some old friends and a relative or two. He didn't want to talk about the journey. He wanted to forget the immediacy, the urgency, the terror; then perhaps he ...

— The First One • Herbert D. Kastle

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