NOUN | attribute | immediateness, immediacy, instantaneousness, instancy | the quickness of action or occurrence |
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attribute | immediateness, immediacy | lack of an intervening or mediating agency |
Meaning | The quickness of action or occurrence. | |
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Synonyms | immediacy, instantaneousness, instancy | |
Broader | celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness | A rate that is rapid |
Spanish | inmediatez, instantaneidad | |
Adjectives | immediate | performed with little or no delay |
immediate | of the present time and place | |
immediate | immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect |
Meaning | lack of an intervening or mediating agency. | |
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Synonym | immediacy | |
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 | |
Adjectives | immediate | having no intervening medium |
immediate | very close or connected in space or time |
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