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immediacy (s) (noun), immediacies (pl)
1. The quality or condition of being immediate: The immediacy of getting to the hospital on time is of great importance when a person is suffering from appendicidis.
2. Freedom from an intermediate or intervening agency; direct relation or connexion; directness: In the present time, it is so important to have the immediacy of live-television news coverage.
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