as in proximity
the state or condition of being near
the immediacy of Christmas is just beginning to dawn on many last-minute shoppers
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Recent Examples of immediacy
Cinema shifted these performances to the screen, where audiences gathered to experience stories through the lens of cameras and projection systems, replacing the immediacy of live actors with the magic of film.
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
The richness of the brat persona and the immediacy of the songwriting turned the album into a zeitgeist event, but that massive success is secondary to the record’s idiosyncratic purview.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
At a time when expectations of topical immediacy seem out of step with the methodology of museum research, this third iteration of PST surfaces the discrepancy between the past and the present in intriguing ways.
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Shot in 16mm black and white, the footage has a paradoxical immediacy lost to a world in which, by one count, 14 billion color images are posted to social media every day.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
The richness of the brat persona and the immediacy of the songwriting turned the album into a zeitgeist event, but that massive success is secondary to the record’s idiosyncratic purview.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
At a time when expectations of topical immediacy seem out of step with the methodology of museum research, this third iteration of PST surfaces the discrepancy between the past and the present in intriguing ways.
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Shot in 16mm black and white, the footage has a paradoxical immediacy lost to a world in which, by one count, 14 billion color images are posted to social media every day.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for immediacy
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“Immediacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immediacy. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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