Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

instantaneity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-stan-ta-ne-ity
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The condition of being instantaneous.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."
"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."

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Suffix: -ity

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

instantaneities (plural)

Derived Forms

coinstantaneity

Frequently Paired Words

instantaneous

Synonyms

instantaneity instantaneousness immediacy immediateness

Antonyms

graduality

Questions

What does instantaneity mean?: The condition of being instantaneous.
Where does instantaneity come from?: From instantaneous + -ity. By surface analysis, instant + -aneity.

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