immediacy
noun
im·me·di·a·cy
i-ˈmē-dē-ə-sē 
British often -ˈmē-jə-sē
plural immediacies
1
: the quality or state of being immediate
2
: something that is immediate
—usually used in plural
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Examples of immediacy in a Sentence
Television coverage gave the war greater immediacy than it had ever before had.
There is an immediacy to watching a live performance that you cannot get from hearing a recording.
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Never had a doctor made a referral appointment for me, on the spot, scheduled with such glaring immediacy.
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Christine Moorman
koen Pauwels, Harvard Business Review, 14 Oct. 2024
Seeing these images again as they were first distributed, as grainy black-and-white prints with crude crop marks and a wealth of scribbled and printed information on the back, grounds them in history but doesn’t disturb their terrible, marvellous immediacy.
—The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Never had a doctor made a referral appointment for me, on the spot, scheduled with such glaring immediacy.
—Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
There was an immediacy, intensity, and complete surrender involved in the initial experience that could never be repeated and was sometimes even diminished on the second pass.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for immediacy
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“Immediacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immediacy. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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immediacy
noun
im·me·di·a·cy
im-ˈēd-ē-ə-sē
plural immediacies
1
: the quality or state of being immediate
2
: something that is of immediate importance
immediacies of daily life
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