Definition of "immediacy" []

• The condition or quality of being immediate. (noun)
• Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness: the immediacy of live television coverage. (noun)
• Something immediate, as in importance. (noun)

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• "Prof. Carl G. Jung refers to what he calls the immediacy of the Negro race."
• "Such immediacy is clearly going to overwhelm any subtle long-term psychological effects."
• "If true, this would give a certain immediacy for any effort to fracture the insurgency."