NOUN | attribute | immediacy, immediateness | lack of an intervening or mediating agency |
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cognition | immediacy, immediate apprehension | immediate intuitive awareness | |
attribute | immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy | the quickness of action or occurrence |
Sounds | ihmiy'diyahsiy | |
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Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... |
Meaning | lack of an intervening or mediating agency. | |
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Example | "the immediacy of television coverage" | |
Synonym | immediateness | |
Attributes | immediate | Having no intervening medium |
mediate | Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency | |
Broader | directness, straightness | trueness of course toward a goal / goal |
Opposite | mediacy, mediateness | The quality of being mediate |
Spanish | inmediación, inmediatez | |
Catalan | immediació, immediatesa |
Meaning | immediate intuitive awareness. | |
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Synonym | immediate apprehension | |
Broader | intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) |
Spanish | aprehensión inmediata, inmediatez | |
Catalan | immediatesa |
Meaning | The quickness of action or occurrence. | |
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Example | "the immediacy of their response" | |
Synonyms | immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy | |
Broader | celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness | A rate that is rapid |
Spanish | inmediatez, instantaneidad |
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