immediacy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun lack of an intervening or mediating agency
    immediateness.
    • the immediacy of television coverage
  2. noun immediate intuitive awareness
    immediate apprehension.
  3. noun the quickness of action or occurrence
    immediateness; instancy; instantaneousness.
    • the immediacy of their response
    • the instancy of modern communication

WordNet

Im*me"di*a*cy noun
Definitions
  1. The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak.

Webster 1913