Adjective : an instantaneous response. ,the instantaneous position of the rocket. From Dictionary.com.
The fall feels like an instantaneity and an eternity. From Wordnik.com. [GRAVITY BRINGS ME DOWN AND MY TOOTH ACHES] Reference
It has a huge instantaneity: The average consumer scans 12 feet of shelf space per second. From Wordnik.com. [10 Truths about the Future | Impact Lab] Reference
One could say, then, that operational media is motored by the need for an instantaneity of action, where time delays, spatial distances, and. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Operational Media] Reference
If it were within his power he would go to her now with the philotic instantaneity of the ansible; but he also knew that her pain would wait. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
In response to this world, insomnia is not only a nightmare mimicry of idealized instantaneity, however -- too many thoughts occurring all at once, too quickly!. From Wordnik.com. ['Insomnia: A Cultural History'] Reference
Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but they do have an edge in browseability. From Wordnik.com. [John Mesjak: It's Okay to Be Ambidextrous, but Don't Let Either Hand Do All the Work: on Jaron Lanier and Book Buying] Reference
Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for search-find-click-done instantaneity, but online search shop can only take us so far. From Wordnik.com. [John Mesjak: It's Okay to Be Ambidextrous, but Don't Let Either Hand Do All the Work: on Jaron Lanier and Book Buying] Reference
Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but online search shop can only take us so far. From Wordnik.com. [John Mesjak: It's Okay to Be Ambidextrous, but Don't Let Either Hand Do All the Work: on Jaron Lanier and Book Buying] Reference
The right now is partially a function of technology, which makes instantaneity possible, and also a function of a culture that valorizes the up-to-the-minute above all else. From Wordnik.com. [Here we go again] Reference
Indie bricks and mortar bookstores may not always be able to satisfy that desire for "search-find-click-done" instantaneity, but online search & shop can only take us so far. From Wordnik.com. [John Mesjak: It's Okay to Be Ambidextrous, but Don't Let Either Hand Do All the Work: on Jaron Lanier and Book Buying] Reference
In a penetrating analysis, Wayne Hope indicates that what is known in global networks as 'real time' manifests in a 'drive towards instantaneity' that 'never reaches full identity with itself'. From Wordnik.com. ['Insomnia: A Cultural History'] Reference
The perspective of the real life-size space of a world still full, still whole, is now of necessity saddled with a relativistic perspective of time: that real time of an instantaneity that makes up for the definitive loss of geographical distances. From Wordnik.com. [Recortes] Reference
The mutually decided maybe, passing an instantaneity. From Wordnik.com. [We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you!] Reference
The doctor was amazed at the instantaneity of the phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference
And with a rapidity that approached instantaneity she disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference
What has changed most stunningly is the breadth and instantaneity of our informal learning. From Wordnik.com. [Half an Hour] Reference
Is there a logical progression from the doctrine of instantaneity to the realization of emptiness?. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
Brain and brush collaborate with an instantaneity that does not perplex because the result is so convincing. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
And in this way history itself comes to an end, finds itself obliterated by the instantaneity and omnipresence of the event. From Wordnik.com. [Entertaining Research] Reference
This lends the work of journalists an aura of instantaneity and immediatism, as 'news' stresses the novelty of information as its defining principle. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Ashley succeeds in immersing us in the essences of these people until we are overtaken by their particularities, by their atmospheres, and instantaneity ensues. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
As our world recreates acoustic and oral culture by simply pushing on with devices of instantaneity and simultaneity, we need not fear the suppression of visual and written culture. From Wordnik.com. [NoahBrier.com] Reference
Back when media organizations liberally opened their websites to comments, the thinking was that the instantaneity of the Internet would make for a less static, more enriching debate between readers. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
But it also agrees with the greens because it retains intense awareness of itself as body and feels only revulsion for CyberGnosis, the attempt to transcend the body through instantaneity and simulation. From Wordnik.com. [home] Reference
Edison throws also a curious side-light on the origin of the comic column in the modern American newspaper, the telegraph giving to a new joke or a good story the ubiquity and instantaneity of an important historical event. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1] Reference
Assuming instantaneity in regards to the rabbit's ability and capability to counter the agent's location, the rabbit would always escape even if the agent could run an infinite speed, but never an instantaneous speed / warp. From Wordnik.com. [TierneyLab] Reference
Mr. Edison throws also a curious side-light on the origin of the comic column in the modern American newspaper, the telegraph giving to a new joke or a good story the ubiquity and instantaneity of an important historical event. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
The impact of the media, today perhaps more effective than ever given the advanced technologies of global instantaneity and the ever-growing persuasive power of the images-laden press, is to zombify the individual mind and render it indistinguishable from the mass. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I must hasten to add that this is not entirely their fault: the Internet can propagate any flashy notion, whether it be a style of eyewear or a presidential candidacy, with such instantaneity that a convergence on the "hip" tends now to happen unself-consciously, as a simple matter of course. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Magazine] Reference
It travels in a time dimension and any speed slower than instantaneity is a modification of that force field. ". From Wordnik.com. [Empire] Reference
But there is no inherent virtue to instantaneity. From Wordnik.com. [Here we go again] Reference
But the haiku's instantaneity is also a limit. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
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