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Definition of instantaneousness:
Synonyms for instantaneousness:
imperativeness, immediateness, instancy, immediacy, immediate apprehension.
- suddenness (part of speech: noun)
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transience (part of speech: noun)
- impermanence,
- briefness,
- transience,
- moment,
- temporality,
- transition,
- evanescence,
- fleetingness,
- volatility
- timelessness (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
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It is only the ingenuity, condensation, and instantaneousness which lift some witticisms from reasoning into wit; they are reasoning raised to its highest power.
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His head was scarred with the records of old wounds, a sort of series of fields of battle all over it; one eye out, one ear cropped as close as was Archbishop Leighton's father's; the remaining eye had the power of two; and above it, and in constant communication with it, was a tattered rag of an ear, which was forever unfurling itself, like an old flag; and then that bud of a tail, about one inch long, if it could in any sense be said to be long, being as broad as long- the mobility, the instantaneousness of that bud were very funny and surprising, and its expressive twinklings and winkings, the intercommunications between the eye, the ear, and it, were of the oddest and swiftest.
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The clearness and instantaneousness of all the mental processes, the complete exclusion of error, the unbroken serenity of the vision, the facility of embracing whole worlds and systems in one calm, searching, exhausting glance, the Divine character and utter holiness of all the truths presented to the view- these are broken words which serve at least to show what we may even 'now indistinctly covet in that bright abode of everlasting bliss.