(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.
Propinquity
Definition:
(n.) Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.
(n.) Nearness in time.
(n.) Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the excitable narrator said: “It will attract young men with bright new ideas.” This was to be a radically decentralised city, inspired by Californian urban theorist Melvin Webber, who believed that the traditional concentric city would be superseded by “community without propinquity”: closely bonded without being physically crammed together, a vision which looks rather like the internet age.
(2) For propinquity may be enforced, but affection cannot.
(3) His rich vocabulary , including such rarely used words as "bailiwick", "condign", "propinquity" and "occlude", lifted the tone of the long sessions before Lord Justice Leveson.
(4) Both the speed and propinquity of Iceland's transition from these conditions have left a unique stamp on the present-day society: development has driven a quick elaboration of occupational roles and other social status shifts, vast health status improvements, and great population and urban growth.
(5) The resulting classification largely reflects geographic propinquity rather than linguistic origins.
(6) The obtained results confirm close relationship of Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y. pestis, and also of Y. enterocolitica and Y. enterocolitica-like bacteria, showing propinquity of Y. ruckeri to the latter.
(7) From this it appears that the pair of linked enzymes comprise a functional compartment supported by propinquity in which hexokinase has preferential access to ATP produced by creatine kinase, and creatine kinase to ADP from the hexokinase reaction.
(8) The properties of water are known to be significantly modified by propinquity to solid surfaces.
(9) Its role in amplifying the immune defense system by recruitment of naive lymphocytes into propinquity with the challenging antigens is suggested.
(10) As shown by the method of competitive EIA, the antigenic affinity of LAP of different origin corresponds to the degree of taxonomic propinquity of microorganisms: the maximal degree of cross reactions is observed between LAP obtained from S. sonnei, S. flexneri and Escherichia coli, while their affinity to Salmonella typhi is considerably less; remote microbial species (Bacterium bifidum and Sarcina marcescens) give practically no cross reactions.
(11) The analysis of isolation by distance shows that geographic propinquity is a reasonably good predictor of general similarity in this area.
(12) The development of the extrastriate visual system relative to the striate system was estimated indirectly by measuring the volumes of the lateral posteriorpulvinar complex and lateral geniculate nucleus in six varieties of mammals selected on the basis of their propinquity with Anthropoidea [oppossums, hedgehogs, rats, squirrels, tree shrews and bushbabies].
(13) The effect of knowledge of surround propinquity, ie, awareness of proximity of the adjacent surroundings, on the open-loop accommodative response (AR) was determined by comparing measurements of accommodation obtained in total darkness in two different-sized rooms.
(14) The association of peroxisomes, lipochrome granules and glycogen is interesting in view of the propinquities of peroxisomes to lipid droplets and lipofuscin granules reported for non-neuronal vertebrate tissues, and in view of the growing evidence indicating that some of the roles of peroxisomes are in lipid metabolism and in gluconeogenesis.
(15) These studies are interpreted to mean that a negatively charged amino acid is propinquous to the active-site lysine residue and that this latter residue does not have an unusually low pKa.
(16) This model suggests that hydrogen bonding between water molecules is enhanced by propinquity to solid surfaces.
(17) The bizarre and impoverished nature of the lives of these formerly institutionalized mentally ill citizens, coupled with their propinquity to government and business establishments, creates a social policy dilemma.
(18) Just as significantly, by reducing propinquity, they discourage social cohesion and fail to establish the critical mass which is a prerequisite for urban living.
(19) Thus the histone propinquity in extended chromatin mimics and intimate histone associations in compact chromatin.
(20) There is little correspondence between the systematic implications of hominoid molar morphometrics and reliable estimates of evolutionary propinquity based on interhominoid biomolecular similarities.