Immediacy - Definition

n 1: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy
of television coverage" [syn: immediacy, immediateness]
[ant: mediacy, mediateness]
2: immediate intuitive awareness [syn: immediacy, immediate
apprehension]
3: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of
their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn:
immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness,
instancy]