instancy

Other forms of instancy

plural

instancies·

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 instancy

What does instancy mean?

instancy 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 instancy?

instancy has 3 syllables: in-stan-cy. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for instancy?

Close synonyms include immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, imperativeness. 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 instancy a common word?

instancy 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.