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Immediacy

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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Celerity 76% connected

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

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Directness 76% connected

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

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Intuition 76% connected

A looking after; a regard to.

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Quickness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Rapidity 76% connected

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvem…

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Rapidness 76% connected

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

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Speediness 76% connected

The quality or state of being speedy.

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Straightness 76% connected

The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.

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Immediate 66% connected

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

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Immediate 66% connected

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

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Mediate 66% connected

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

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Mediate 66% connected

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

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Immediateness 92% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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Instancy 92% connected

Instance; urgency.

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Mediacy 94% connected

The state or quality of being mediate.

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Mediacy 94% connected

The state or quality of being mediate.

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Advantage noun · 86% connection

benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity"

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Beat noun · 86% connection

a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"

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Cost noun · 86% connection

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetar…

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Deliberateness noun · 86% connection

a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

Used in the same subject area: Economics, Sociology, Population and demography, Macroeconomics.
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Deliberation noun · 86% connection

a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

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Disparity noun · 86% connection

inequality or difference in some respect

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Fertility noun · 86% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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GDP noun · 86% connection

the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and…

Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments, Macroeconomics.
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Good noun · 86% connection

that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self…

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Goodness noun · 86% connection

that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self…

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Gross domestic product noun · 86% connection

the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and…

Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments, Macroeconomics.
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Haste noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Hastiness noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Hurry noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Image noun · 86% connection

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Environmental science, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.
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Inequality noun · 86% connection

lack of equality; "the growing inequality between rich and poor"

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Mobility noun · 86% connection

the quality of moving freely

Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Sociology, Pollution, Water and aquatic environments.
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Monetary value noun · 86% connection

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetar…

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Abandon noun · 78% connection

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, freedom, interventionof, medium, immediateness.
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Airwave noun · 78% connection

medium for radio and television broadcasting; "the program was on the air from 9 til midnight"; "the president used the airwaves to ta…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, freedom, interventionof, medium, immediateness.
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Amongst preposition · 78% connection

Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, freedom, interventionof, medium, immediateness.
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Atmosphere noun · 78% connection

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

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Authentic noun · 78% connection

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, freedom, interventionof, medium, immediateness.
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Case noun · 78% connection

One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words,…

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Cinema noun · 78% connection

a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film covera…

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Consanguinity noun · 78% connection

The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity;…

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Correlate verb · 78% connection

To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, freedom, interventionof, medium, immediateness.
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Correlation noun · 78% connection

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, freedom, interventionof, medium, immediateness.
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Correspondence noun · 78% connection

Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, freedom, interventionof, medium, immediateness.
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Cross adjective · 78% connection

Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as…

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