Antonyms for immediacy


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

Synonyms for immediacy

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