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The quickness of action or occurrence
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immediacy
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from immediate + -cy .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" [syn: immediateness ] [ant: mediacy ] immediate intuitive awareness [syn: immediate apprehension ] the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Immediacy may refer to: Immediacy, a concept in English law, see duress in English law Immediacy, a concept in vested interest (communication theory) Immediacy, a condition in the Buddhist Twelve Nidānas Immediacy (philosophy) , a philosophical concept ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the quality of being immediate, of happening right away 2 lack of mediation 3 (context philosophy English) immediate awareness or apprehension
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ They approached the peace talks with a sense of immediacy . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But while Burrows' concerns are revealed only tangentially, Smith's are delivered with her usual immediacy . ▪ I could smell the fierce ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immediacy \Im*me"di*a*cy\, n. The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. --Shak.
Usage examples of immediacy.
For meditation practice recalibrates abandonment to divine providence to an ever more refined and subtle awareness of God at work in the hidden recesses of the concrete immediacy of each passing moment.
We sit surrendered to the divinity flowing through the never-quite-this-way-before, never-quite-this-way-again immediacy of the moment just as it is.
Learn to live in this awareness in which you are laid bare to God, who is eternally laid bare to you in the sheer immediacy of what simply is as it simply is.
And in doing so she is awakened to a love that transcends the concrete immediacy of the beloved.
In each instance, it is just so: the mystery to which you are awakened awakens you to itself in and as the concrete immediacy of what just is.
Sitting still in meditation, learn to settle into the ungraspable immediacy of your bodily stillness.
When we sit still, we do not bypass the concrete immediacy of our bodily being.
Rather, we enter into the mind of Christ, which knows and is the divine generosity of the concrete immediacy of ourselves just as we are.
Choose to be present in the immediacy of the present moment by simply relaxing into being right where you are, just as you are.
But from a contemplative point of view, what is really strange is that the ungraspable immediacy of the present moment has become the land we know not.
We are rather attempting to realize our eternal oneness with the unthinkable immediacy of God in and as the immediacy of all that we simply are, one with all that the present moment simply is.
We sit in meditation not to reject, rearrange, or otherwise impose our will on the concrete immediacy of the exterior and interior aspects of the present moment.
Lost in thinking the thought that has carried us away, we are no longer safely at home in the virginal immediacy of the present moment in which we sit.
As we learn to let go of our tendency to cling and reject we are awakened to God, one with us just as we are in the immediacy of the present moment, just as it is.
At first these fallings were limited to our isolated moments of spontaneous contemplative awakening, in which we found ourselves momentarily awakened to the abyss like nature of the concrete immediacy of life itself.