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Immediacy is the noun for that 'this is happening now, right in front of us' feeling. A live video has immediacy that a history book does not. A problem at your door has more immediacy than a problem next year. It is not only speed, though actually. Something has immediacy when it touches the situation in front of you, so it feels close and urgent, with nothing sitting in the middle between you and it. News writers, teachers, and people who talk about art like the word. Students sometimes invent 'immediate-ness'; native speakers say immediacy.
即時性;眼前的迫切感
組成immediate (happening now, with nothing in between) + -acy (makes a noun). Immediate itself is im- (not) + mediate (in the middle).
同家族的字
- immediatethe adjective: happening now, with nothing in between
- immediatelythe adverb: at once
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
immediacynoun/ɪˈmiːdi.əsi/
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The quality of being immediate, of happening right away.
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Lack of mediation; directness.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesImmediate awareness or apprehension.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。