immediacy.

1. The quality of being felt or encountered directly, without apparent distance or mediation.

2. The need for prompt attention or the closeness of an event in time.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• emotional immediacy
• immediacy of experience

On the page

The diary gives the events an immediacy absent from the official report.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, description. Commonness: moderately common.