Noun: instancy in-stun(t)-see
- The quickness of action or occurrence
"the instancy of modern communication";
- immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness
- [archaic] The quality of being insistent
"he pressed his demand with considerable instancy";
- imperativeness
Derived forms: instancies
Type of: celerity [archaic], quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, urgency