[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

immediacy \imme"diacy\, n.
   the relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium;
   immediateness. --shak.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

immediacy
     n 1: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy
          of television coverage" syn: immediateness ant: mediacy
     2: immediate intuitive awareness syn: immediate apprehension
     3: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of
        their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
        syn: immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy
see also:
immediateness mediacy immediate apprehension instantaneousness instancy 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

69 moby thesaurus words for "immediacy":
   accessibility, actual presence, alacrity, approach, approximation,
   availability, being here, being there, case of need, closeness,
   confines, contiguity, contiguousness, convergence, decisiveness,
   dire necessity, dispatch, environs, exigence, exigency, existence,
   expedition, expeditiousness, foreground, hereness, immanence,
   immediate foreground, immediateness, imperative, imperativeness,
   indwellingness, inherence, instantaneity, instantaneousness,
   matter of necessity, momentaneousness, momentariness, nearness,
   neighborhood, nighness, occurrence, physical presence, precinct,
   predicament, presence, pressingness, pressure, promptitude,
   promptness, propinquity, proximity, punctuality, punctualness,
   purlieus, quickness, rapidity, readiness, simultaneity, speediness,
   spiritual presence, summariness, swiftness, thereness, ubiety,
   urgency, urgent need, vicinage, vicinity, whereness

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