Immediacy

Definitions: Immediacy

Immediacy

Noun

1. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency: "the immediacy of television coverage".

2. Immediate intuitive awareness.

3. The quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication".

Date "immediacy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references)

Synonyms: Immediacy

Synonyms: immediate apprehension (n), immediateness (n), instancy (n), instantaneousness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: mediacy (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Instantaneity	Noun: instantaneity, instantaneousness, immediacy; suddenness, abruptness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Immediacy

English words defined with "immediacy": immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "immediacy": syntonic. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong. (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (reference) Immediacy : How our world confronts us & how we confront our world (reference) Immediacy and Its Limits: A Study in Martin Buber's Thought (reference) Immediacy Lost: Construction of the Social in Rousseau & Nietzsche (reference) Language Within Language: Immediacy, a Channel in Verbal Communication (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Immediacy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immediacy" is used about 165 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	165	24,305

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "immediacy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rëndësi i menjëhershme, menjëherëshmëri. (various references)

Arabic		‏فورية, ‏مباشرية, ‏الفورية, ‏شىء عاجل. (various references)

Bulgarian		неотложност (instancy, urgency), незабавност (promptitude), непосредственост (directness, instancy, spontaneity), непосредствена заплаха, близост (adjacency, alliance, appetence, appetency, approach, association, closeness, impendence, nearness, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, reach, vicinity). (various references)

Chinese		直接 (Direct, firsthand, immediate, self-activating, straight, straightforward). (various references)

Czech		bezprostřednost (directness, imminence). (various references)

Farsi		فوریت (Urgency), مستقیم وبی واسطه بودن , قرب جواز, حضورذهن , اگاهی (Acquaintance, Advice, Cognizance, Dope, Idea, Inkling, Intelligence, Knowledge, Perception), بی فاصلگی , بی واسطگی , بی درنگی , بدیهی (Evident, Inevitable, Natural, Obvious). (various references)

French		immédiateté, caractère d'urgence, caractère d'immédiat. (various references)

German		unmittelbarkeit (directness). (various references)

Greek		αμεσότησ (proximateness), αμεσότητα (proximateness). (various references)

Hebrew		מי�"יות, �"חיפות (hurry, urgency). (various references)

Hungarian		közvetlenség (directness, intimacy, sociability), sürgősség (dispatch, urgency), azonnaliság. (various references)

Indonesian		kesiapan. (various references)

Italian		immediatezza (outrightness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		覿面 (instantaneousness, promptness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		てきめ�" (instantaneousness, promptness). (various references)

Korean		직� �성. (various references)

Manx		chelleerid. (various references)

Pig Latin		immediacyay.(various references)

Portuguese		infinito (boundless, endless, illimitable, immense, incomprehension, infinitesimal, infinitive, infinity, unbounded, unmeasured), iminência (imminence, impendence, instancy), urgência (haste, instancy, urgency), proximidade imediata. (various references)

Russian		незамедлительность, непосредственность (directness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neposrednost (directness). (various references)

Spanish		inmediación, urgencia (emergency, exiguity, urgency). (various references)

Swedish		omedelbarhet. (various references)

Thai		ความเร่ง�"่วน. (various references)

Turkish		yakınlık (adjacency, affinity, approximation, closeness, connection, connexion, contiguity, familiarity, imminence, intimacy, kinship, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relationship, terms), dolaysızlık, doğrudanlık. (various references)

Ukranian		негайність, безпосередність (directness, plainness, spontaneity). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự trực tiếp sự lập tức (immediateness), sự tức thì sự gần gũi (immediateness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Immediacy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bimedia, imediacy, immmediacy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "immediacy" (pronounced i'mē"dēusē)
5	-d ē u s ē	idiocy.
3	-u s ē	accuracy, adequacy, advocacy, Argosy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, candidacy, celibacy, confederacy, conspiracy, courtesy, degeneracy, delicacy, democracy, diplomacy, ecstasy, embassy, fallacy, fantasy, Geodesy, heresy, hypocrisy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, inaccuracy, inadequacy, intimacy, intricacy, jealousy, legacy, legitimacy, leprosy, literacy, lunacy, meritocracy, obstinacy, Odyssey, papacy, pharmacy, piracy, pleurisy, policy, primacy, privacy, prophecy, secrecy, supremacy, surrogacy, theocracy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-m-m-y"
	-2 letters: mediacy.
	-3 letters: amidic, maimed.
	-4 letters: acidy, aimed, amice, amici, amide, cymae, decay, dicey, imide, maced, mamey, mamie, mayed, media, medic, medii, mimed, mimic.
	-5 letters: aced, acid, acme, aide, amid, amie, cade, cadi, caid, came, cedi, cyma, cyme, dace, dame, demy, dice, dime, emic, emyd, iced, idea, idem, imam, imid, immy, mace, made, maid, maim, mead, mica, mice, midi, mime.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-m-m-y"
	+2 letters: immedicably.
	+5 letters: immethodically.
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