Associations to the word «Immediacy»

Wiktionary

IMMEDIACY, noun. The quality of being immediate, of happening right away
IMMEDIACY, noun. Lack of mediation
IMMEDIACY, noun. (philosophy) immediate awareness or apprehension

Dictionary definition

IMMEDIACY, noun. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage".
IMMEDIACY, noun. Immediate intuitive awareness.
IMMEDIACY, noun. The quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky