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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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
Cinema shifted these performances to the screen, where audiences gathered to experience stories through the lens of cameras and projection systems, replacing the immediacy of live actors with the magic of film.
—Gerui Wang, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
The richness of the brat persona and the immediacy of the songwriting turned the album into a zeitgeist event, but that massive success is secondary to the record’s idiosyncratic purview.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
At a time when expectations of topical immediacy seem out of step with the methodology of museum research, this third iteration of PST surfaces the discrepancy between the past and the present in intriguing ways.
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Immediacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immediacy. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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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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