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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Baker captures the action with an immediacy that’s born of his methods.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
From my seat in the balcony there was a refined presence to his tone and a sharp immediacy to every section in the orchestra.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
Researchers leverage their findings to offer suggestions to marketers on how to overcome past strategy misalignment in order to continue to benefit from social media’s immediacy and pervasiveness, including through the use of Gen AI.
—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
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
From my seat in the balcony there was a refined presence to his tone and a sharp immediacy to every section in the orchestra.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
Researchers leverage their findings to offer suggestions to marketers on how to overcome past strategy misalignment in order to continue to benefit from social media’s immediacy and pervasiveness, including through the use of Gen AI.
—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
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“Immediacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immediacy. Accessed 21 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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