immediacy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++im·me·di·a·cy /ɪˈmiːdiəsi/ noun [uncountable] NOWwhen something is important or urgent because it relates to a situation or event that is happening now 即时；紧迫；刻不容缓immediacy of the immediacy of everyday experience 日常经验的直接性 Television brings a new immediacy to world events. 电视把世界大事更迅捷地呈现在观众眼前。

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immediacy• Seldom before had music possessed such hyper-sensitivity, such visceral intensity, such manic-depressive immediacy.• I could smell the fierce immediacy of cinnamon, anise, and fish sauce on the tips of her nails.• She said she had never so much felt its presence, its immediacy, as lately.• They approached the peace talks with a sense of immediacy.• They demand our attention with the same immediacy as the everyday crises in our lives.• Max believes in the child's imagination, in the immediacy of the child's expression.• Some aspects of this immediacy can also be transmitted by our contacts with non-human organisms whose lifespan far exceeds our own.• But while Burrows' concerns are revealed only tangentially, Smith's are delivered with her usual immediacy.