instancy

Definitions of instancy
  1. noun
    the quickness of action or occurrence
    “the instancy of modern communication”
    synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness
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    type of:
    celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
    a rate that is rapid
  2. noun
    the quality of being insistent
    “he pressed his demand with considerable instancy”
    synonyms: imperativeness
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    type of:
    urgency
    pressing importance requiring speedy action
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