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
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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Her use of gray, a nod to W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1900 Paris Exposition photo series, The American Negro, disrupts the chromatic immediacy of race as we are used to recognizing it.
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Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
Spider may lack the gory, squirmy immediacy of his most beloved work, but there’s plenty of horror to its portrait of a man unmoored from his own sense of reality.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
The story’s immediacy is intensified not only by clever dramatics but by its echoes of current events, for which D’Annunzio provides—depending on one’s views—a cautionary tale or a cookbook.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
In an effort to capture chaos, immediacy, and realism, the showrunners sought to create an unbroken visual experience with no cutaways.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025
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Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
Spider may lack the gory, squirmy immediacy of his most beloved work, but there’s plenty of horror to its portrait of a man unmoored from his own sense of reality.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
The story’s immediacy is intensified not only by clever dramatics but by its echoes of current events, for which D’Annunzio provides—depending on one’s views—a cautionary tale or a cookbook.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
In an effort to capture chaos, immediacy, and realism, the showrunners sought to create an unbroken visual experience with no cutaways.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025
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 19 May. 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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