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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Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Asylum interviews are about fact checking, about producing evidence of direct persecution or violence, the immediacy of threat.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 21 May 2025
This perspective shift reduces the immediacy of concerns, allowing for clearer present-moment focus.
—Melody Wilding, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
But cruelty can still very much be the point of such arrangements, even when it isn’t performed with visceral immediacy.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
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“Immediacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immediacy. Accessed 4 Jun. 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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