immediateness

1. 1.

   the quickness of action or occurrence

   “the immediacy of their response”

   “the instancy of modern communication”

   Synonymsimmediacyinstantaneousnessinstancy

   Broadercelerity
2. 2.

   lack of an intervening or mediating agency

   “the immediacy of television coverage”

   Synonymsimmediacy

   Broaderdirectness

Other forms of immediateness

plural

immediatenesses·

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 immediateness

What does immediateness mean?

immediateness means "the quickness of action or occurrence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in immediateness?

immediateness has 6 syllables: im-me-di-a-te-ness. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for immediateness?

Close synonyms include immediacy, instantaneousness, instancy, immediacy. 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.

Is immediateness a common word?

immediateness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.