instantaneity
instantaneity noun: the condition of being instantaneous.
Noun
instantaneity (usually uncountable, plural instantaneities)
- The condition of being instantaneous.
- […] an excited gentleman […] pounded with the knocker on the door of No. 9. As someone did not appear with the instantaneity of a jack-in-the-box, he proceeded to repeat the summons, interspersing it with an occasional "I say!" shouted through the letter-box.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
- As No Sense of Place attests, context collapse is something we can understand spatially. But this process has a temporal cousin, which is an analogous collapse into a permanent instantaneity. […] Just as a series of rooms is dissolved into one big “situation”, instantaneity flattens past, present...2019, Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, →ISBN, page 163
- Synonyms:
- instantaneousness, immediacy, immediateness
Synonyms of instantaneity
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Forms of instantaneity
| plural | instantaneities |
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Origin of instantaneity
From instantaneous + -ity. By surface analysis, instant + -aneity.
Words formed from instantaneity
Questions about instantaneity
- What does instantaneity mean?
- Instantaneity means the condition of being instantaneous.
- What part of speech is instantaneity?
- Instantaneity is a noun.
- What is the plural of instantaneity?
- The plural of instantaneity is instantaneities.
Words near instantaneity in the dictionary
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