instantaneity

plural instantaneities

1. uncountableusuallyThe condition of being instantaneous.

   […] 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

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   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

   Synonyms: instantaneousness, immediacy, immediateness