INSTANCY

immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy

(noun) the quickness of action or occurrence; “the immediacy of their response”; “the instancy of modern communication”

imperativeness, instancy

(noun) the quality of being insistent; “he pressed his demand with considerable instancy”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

instancy (countable and uncountable, plural instancies)

insistence, insistency

immediacy, instantaneousness

Source: Wiktionary


In"stan*cy, n.

Definition: Instance; urgency. [Obs.] Those heavenly precepts which our Lord and Savior with so great instancy gave. Hooker.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

24 June 2025

CLINGFISH

(noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

coffee icon