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[ noun ] lack of an intervening or mediating agency

Synonyms

immediateness

Examples

: "the immediacy of television coverage"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives_way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief , which gives_way in_turn , and with equal immediacy , to an illusion that seems to contain both - or neither .

Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' .

Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' .

2
[ noun ] immediate intuitive awareness

Used in print

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

The term idea refers to our more reflective or thoughtful consciousness as_opposed_to the immediacies of sensuous or emotional experience .

Related terms

intuition

3
[ noun ] the quickness of action or occurrence

Examples

"the immediacy of their response" "the instancy of modern communication"

Used in print

(E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)

The market was not far and , once there , the doctor 's sense of immediacy left him and he fell into a state of harmony with the birds around him .

Related terms

celerity

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