What's the difference between immediacy and instantaneousness?
Immediacy
Definition:
(n.) The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The poetry of Williams and Eliot and Pound demonstrated that things, assembled even as enigmatic fragments, as images without spelled-out emotional and logical connectives, give vitality to the language and immediacy to the communication between writer and reader.
(2) As regards the technique, the delicacy and the specificity of the research, suggest the use of very sensible methods, which leave simplicity of execution and immediacy of results, out of consideration.
(3) The stimulus immediacy hypothesis of Salzinger, Portnoy & Feldman (1966) predicts that with increasing context, schizophrenic performance, unlike that of normals, will fail to improve.
(4) The immediacy of anorexia and bulimia nervosa tends to obscure the adjunct problems of eating-disordered patients.
(5) The level of staff performance on the operational indices of physical, emotional, and intellectual functioning including, specifically, the interpersonal dimensions of empathy, respect, genuineness, concreteness, confrontation, and immediacy is designated as the operational basis for the organizational decisions of hiring, firing, promotion, and role assignment.
(6) In a health control service environment, that is, a periodic, membership AMHTS type of comprehensive health check-up system, where clinical data evaluation especially an evaluation in terms of subject-specific normal ranges, is most important, the medical information system is required to handle: (1) Various network types files; (2) real-time immediacy; (3) an asserted reliability to meet personal health control purposes.
(7) It is the immediacy of the anxious cognitions of imminent death, collapse or becoming insane that are characteristic of panic attacks.
(8) Additionally, while the answers were terse, the immediacy and intimacy of the president's responses offered a glimpse into his mind that might never have been exposed so starkly in more formal circumstances.
(9) Again, it looks simple, but in his delivery, in its immediacy and its signalling of the torrent of rhymes that are about to come, it’s one of the greatest opening couplets in the whole of hip-hop, and it still reverberates through global culture as such.
(10) She added: "I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).
(11) There's none of the immediacy of Twitter or the ponderous thought put into a blog post.
(12) Lauterpacht said Timor-Leste aimed “to prevent with immediacy Australia from deriving any further benefit from the internationally illegal seizure” of the documents.
(13) These skills include empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, self-disclosure, confrontation, immediacy, and behavior modification.
(14) In general, the attitudes of the two survey populations towards the AIDS epidemic and attendant problems was similar although the Scots were more complacent than their American counterparts, probably due to the less immediacy of the AIDS problem in Scotland.
(15) This process occurred in the immediacy of the inclusion membrane and in close proximity with the mitochondria or the endoplasmic reticulum of the host cell.
(16) It is concluded that immediacy is of little value in diagnosing and treating out-patients, but would be helpful in reducing unnecessary return visits.
(17) Difficulties in this approach include the taxonomic incongruity of 'client-group' statistics and the 'disease-system' categories of biomedicine; the therapeutic expectations of the consciously ill; the intellectual interest and the immediacy of specialized clinical practice; and the necessary and profitable links between medical science and the general corpus of science.
(18) The results suggest that hyperactive children were more concerned to reduce overall delay levels than either to maximize reward amount or immediacy.
(19) Her gifts to the song are vulnerability, understatement and immediacy: the listener is right there, at the base of the tree.
(20) There is less of that for me here now.” She hasn’t given up on movies, but the immediacy of the stage is something she will not give up lightly.