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Grammar : Noun

Spell : ih-mee-dee-uh-see

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmi di ə si

Definition of immediacy

Origin : c.1600, from immediate + -cy.

As in proximity : noun nearness to something
As in nearness : noun nearness in time or space

Example sentences :

The churches submit to the demand for immediacy with great alacrity.
Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann

Jeff had considered the possibility, but its immediacy appalled him.
Extract from : « Traders Risk » by Roger Dee

This flight is the immediacy of conviction and the ecstasy which follows.
Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor

This immediacy of contact does not alter the provincial point of view.
Extract from : « Atlantic Classics » by Various

The other two innovations which we have mentioned press closer to immediacy.
Extract from : « The Women of Tomorrow » by William Hard

Both art and religion, we have seen, possess an immediacy and concreteness which philosophy lacks.
Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

They left him, forever, and he stood regaining his strayed sense of immediacy.
Extract from : « The Bright Shawl » by Joseph Hergesheimer

With all the immediacy of a child or a savage he set off at once.
Extract from : « The Mad Planet » by Murray Leinster

And with the bright small things of immediacy they are so active and-399- alert.
Extract from : « Marriage » by H. G. Wells

Strictly speaking, the intuition of immediacy is inexpressible.
Extract from : « A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson » by Edouard le Roy

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