immediacy

[ ih-mee-dee-uh-see ]

/ ɪˈmi di ə si /

the state, condition, or quality of being immediate.

Often immediacies. an immediate need: the immediacies of everyday living.

Philosophy.

immediate presence of an object of knowledge to the mind, without any distortions, inferences, or interpretations, and without involvement of any intermediate agencies.
the direct content of the mind as distinguished from representation or cognition.

Origin of immediacy

First recorded in 1595–1605; immedi(ate) + -acy

More than anything else, what the first person perspective adds is a sense of immediacy.

I Felt Like Showering After the First-Person Sex in ‘Grand Theft Auto’ |Alec Kubas-Meyer |November 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The barrage and immediacy of these images magnifies these horrors.

You, Too, Could Be a Homicidal Zealot |Joel Gold |July 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The only difference between then and now is the immediacy of the access.

My Weird Inside Look at Teen Twitter |Sam Wilkinson |May 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It is that sense of immediacy, even in novels about the past, that you get from his fiction.

Peter Matthiessen Was One of the Greatest Writers of a Great Generation |Malcolm Jones |April 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Yet the difficulty was in capturing the immediacy of a narrative that was chaotically in motion.

Steve Mumford: The Artist Who Went to War |Justin Jones |February 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And with the bright small things of immediacy they are so active and-399- alert.

Marriage |H. G. Wells
Immediacy is rather supremacy in opposition to subordination, which has quiddam medium between itself and power.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies |Samuel Johnson
This word means first of all simple apprehension of immediacy, grasp of primitive fact.

A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson |Edouard le Roy
In thought, therefore, the world of nature loses its immediacy and becomes a realm of appearances and phantoms.

Life's Basis and Life's Ideal |Rudolf Eucken
The air of immediacy which enveloped him made quiet imagination impossible.

The Foolish Lovers |St. John G. Ervine