immediacy (redirected from immediacies)

im·me·di·a·cy  (-md--s)

n. pl. im·me·di·a·cies

1. The condition or quality of being immediate.

2. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness: the immediacy of live television coverage.

3. Something immediate, as in importance.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	immediacy - lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" immediateness directness, straightness - trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim" mediacy, mediateness - the quality of being mediate
	2.	immediacy - immediate intuitive awareness immediate apprehension intuition - instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
	3.	immediacy - the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, quickness - a rate that is rapid

Translations

immediacy [ɪˈmiːdɪəsɪ] N [of text, image, style] → inmediatez f; (= urgency) [of task] → urgencia f

immediacy [ɪˈmiːdiəsi] n

[events] → immédiateté f
It is the immediacy of events which makes television so popular → C'est l'immédiateté de l'événement qui rend la télévision si populaire.

[crisis] → imminence f

immediacy

n → Unmittelbarkeit f, → Direktheit f; (= urgency) → Dringlichkeit f

immediacy [ɪˈmiːdɪəsɪ] n → immediatezza