- immediacy⇄expr. immediacies, immediate needs.
Ex. The old things and the foul things, customs, delusions, habits ... base immediacies, triumph over us (H. G. Wells). - immediacy⇄immediacy, noun, pl.-cies.
1. the quality or condition of being immediate.
Ex. The record companies settled on immediacy as a promotional gambit (Newsweek).
2. (Philosophy.) the condition of being directly present to the consciousness a