Immediacy vs Urgency - What's the difference?

immediacy | urgency |


As nouns the difference between immediacy and urgency

is that immediacy is the quality of being immediate, of happening right away while urgency is the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

immediacy

English

Noun

(immediacies)
  • the quality of being immediate, of happening right away
  • lack of mediation
  • (philosophy) immediate awareness or apprehension

    • urgency

    English

    Noun

    (urgencies)
  • The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
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    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.}}