ə̇ˈmēdēəsē, -si, chiefly Brit -mējəs- or -mēdyəs- noun
1. : the quality or state of being immediate ; usually : freedom from or absence of an intervening medium : direct presence : directness , contiguity
the immediacy of personal experience — London Calling
television has on occasion furnished a startling immediacy … to news reports — F.L.Mott
— opposed to mediacy
2. : something that is immediate
the immediacy of our need
— usually used in plural
the immediacies of life
3. : the state or relation under feudal law of being immediate lord or vassal
4.
a. : the direct content of consciousness or consciousness itself as distinguished from what consciousness represents or mediates a knowledge of
b. : direct awareness or presentations of sense as contrasted with what is added by memory and association or thought
c. : the quality of something that is self-evident or intuited as contrasted with something that is arrived at by thought or reason