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  • Symptoms of a heart attack usually come on gradually, and are rarely instantaneous.
    instantaneous = without any delay
  • There was always a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance.  (source)
    instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
  • Their communication, however they do it, is instantaneous.  (source)
    instantaneous = without any delay
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  • The effect was instantaneous.  (source)
    instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
  • Only a few molecules would kill instantaneously  (source)
    instantaneously = immediately
  • —accomplished with an instantaneousness so complete as to preclude even the onset of pain.†  (source)
    instantaneousness = the state or degree of happening immediately (without any delay)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • From time to time, she would clench her fists and utter an oath that the desert wind, and my considerable distance from the family gathering, did not permit me to hear; yet the effect of the oath was instantaneous upon the boy and girl whom I guessed were the surviving siblings.  (source)
    instantaneous = immediate
  • I wrote out the formulas for some of them almost instantaneously and could tell at a glance that the rest of them were divergent.  (source)
    instantaneously = immediately
  • All I knew, as the train rumbled up through the dripping catacombs beneath Eighth Avenue, was that with an instantaneousness I still could barely believe, I had been cut off from the two people in life I cared the most about, and that the primitive sensation of loss it produced was causing me anguish similar to that of being buried alive under a ton of cinders.†  (source)
    instantaneousness = the state or degree of happening immediately (without any delay)
  • Besides these they have brought up a number of those little French beasts with instantaneous fuses.  (source)
    instantaneous = immediately (in an instant)
  • Almost instantaneously, his words vanished and reappeared at the top of the screen.  (source)
    instantaneously = immediately
  • [2] The inverse order indicates the instantaneousness of the act†  (source)
    instantaneousness = the state or degree of happening immediately (without any delay)
  • When the doctor came he said that death had been instantaneous and probably painless, caused in all likelihood by some sudden shock.  (source)
    instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
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