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Noun: immediateness  i'mee-dee-ut-nus
  1. The quickness of action or occurrence
    - immediacy, instantaneousness, instancy
     
  2. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency
    "the immediateness of television coverage";
    - immediacy

See also: immediate, mediate

Type of: celerity [archaic], directness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, straightness

Antonym: mediateness