Dictionary

instantaneity en · NOUN

Etymology

From instantaneous + -ity. By surface analysis, instant + -aneity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The condition of being instantaneous.
   • 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, and future into a constant, amnesiac present. 2019, Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, →ISBN, page 163:
   • […] 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:

Forms

Antonyms

graduality

Deriveds

coinstantaneity

Hyponyms

suddenness

Relateds

instantaneous

Synonyms

instantaneousness · immediateness · instantaneity · immediacy