immediacy
noun/ɪˈmidiəsi/
Frequency rank: #16,287 most common English word
Meaning
the quality of being immediate; happening or felt right now, without delay.
Example sentence
The live broadcast gave the news story sense of immediacy that recorded video could not match.
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