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Immediateness

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

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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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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 74% connected

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

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Immediate 74% 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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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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Immediacy 92% connected

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

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Instancy 92% connected

Instance; urgency.

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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

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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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Fastness noun · 86% connection

a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed"

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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…

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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…

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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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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

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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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About preposition · 78% connection

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person).

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Access time noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "acce…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Accusative adjective · 78% connection

Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influenc…

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Aetiology noun · 78% connection

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Affinity noun · 78% connection

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Algebra noun · 78% connection

That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is appli…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Antilegomena n. pl. · 78% connection

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are t…

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At preposition · 78% connection

Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at th…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Boycott verb · 78% connection

To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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C. G. S. unknown · 78% connection

An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centim…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Causal adjective · 78% connection

Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relations, immediate, place, time, exemption.
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Causally adverb · 78% connection

According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.

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