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Definition of Mediacy

1. Noun. The quality of being mediate.

Definition of Mediacy

1. n. The state or quality of being mediate.

Definition of Mediacy

1. Noun. The facility to work with words and numbers. ¹

2. Noun. The facility in working with media. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mediacy

1. the act of mediating [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediacy

Literary usage of Mediacy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Broader Elementary Education by John Pancoast Gordy (1903)
"Things Known Through Lower mediacy. — As examples of the first class we may cite our ... Things Known Through mediacy—What we know through mediacy includes ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The corresponding substantives are immediacy and mediacy. ... But critical reflection shows that there is also a mediacy which is equally indispensable. ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The corresponding substantives are immediacy and mediacy. ... But critical reflection shows that there is also a mediacy which is equally indispensable. ..."

4. Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy by Arthur Stone Dewing (1903)
"This elementary fact of psychology, that all our experiences are united by subtle bonds of subconscious thought, is known as the interrelatedness or mediacy ..."

5. The Philosophy of the Spirit: A Study of the Spiritual Nature of Man and the by Horatio Willis Dresser (1908)
"But its logical character cannot be reduced to mediacy; it qualifies while it baffles, ... Both immediacy and mediacy are one-sided when taken alone, ..."

6. What is Thought?: Or, The Problem of Philosophy by Way of a General by James Hutchison Stirling (1900)
"An Ego in consciousness : Ego is immediate to Ego, focus to focus; the mediacy then leads only to a condition of immediacy. ..."

7. Lectures on the History of Philosophy by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, Frances H. Simson (1892)
"This opposition between immediacy and mediacy is thus a very barren and quite empty determination ; it is a platitude of the extremest type to consider ..."

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