1. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency
   "the immediacy of television coverage";
   - immediateness
    
2. The quickness of action or occurrence
   "the immediacy of their response";
   - immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy
    
3. Immediate intuitive awareness
   "The immediacy of the danger left no time for thought";
   - immediate apprehension

Derived forms: immediacies

See also: immediate, mediate

Type of: celerity [archaic], directness, intuition, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, straightness

Antonym: mediacy

Encyclopedia: Immediacy