What is "immediateness"

Immediateness \Im*me"di*ate*ness\, n. The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.
--Bp. Hall.

n. the state of being immediate; immediacy

1. n. the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn: immediacy, instantaneousness, instancy]

2. lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" [syn: immediacy] [ant: mediacy]