immediacy

Other forms of immediacy

plural

immediacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immediacy

What does immediacy mean?

immediacy means "lack of an intervening or mediating agency". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in immediacy?

immediacy has 5 syllables: im-me-di-a-cy. The stress falls on "me". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈmiˌdiəsi/.

What is another word for immediacy?

Close synonyms include immediateness, immediate apprehension, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of immediacy?

The recorded antonyms are mediacy.

Is immediacy a common word?

immediacy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.