| 单词 | immediacy |
| 释义 | immediacy (once / 15552 pages) 1n 2n 3n Use the noun immediacy to talk about the lighting-fast speed with which something happens. If you order pizza and see the delivery driver pull up in front of your house two minutes later, you'll be amazed at the immediacy of your pizza's arrival. Something that's immediate, or instantaneous, has the quality of immediacy. Another way to use this noun is to mean "directly," or "firsthand." For example, when people first viewed live news reports on television, they probably marveled at the immediacy of watching something as it was happening, directly and without delay. Immediacy has been in use since about 1600, and it comes from the adjective immediate, with its Latin root of immediatus, "without anything in between." WORD FAMILYimmediacy: immediacies+/immediate: immediacy, immediately, immediateness USAGE EXAMPLES"It's more about the immediacy… what's happening in their lives right now," says Dr Sian Thomas. BBC(Dec 12, 2016) Instead of reacting to a loss in its immediacy, they’ve developed an appreciation for the steady hand a season requires. Seattle Times(Dec 11, 2016) A black-and-white volume that captures the essence of The New York Times obituary: superbly researched pieces of history that retain the immediacy of it-just-happened. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1 n the quickness of action or occurrence 2the immediacy of their response Syn|Hyper immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness a rate that is rapid n lack of an intervening or mediating agency 3the immediacy of television coverage Syn|Ant|Hyper immediateness mediacy, mediateness the quality of being mediate directness, straightness trueness of course toward a goal n immediate intuitive awareness Syn|Hyper immediate apprehension intuition instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) |
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