unmediated

adjective

un·​me·​di·​at·​ed ˌən-ˈmē-dē-ˌā-təd 

: not mediated : not communicated or transformed by an intervening agency

experience unmediated by artifice

Synonyms

• direct
• firsthand
• immediate
• primary

Example Sentences

photoshopped images have made people aware that a digital photograph is not necessarily an unmediated depiction of reality

Recent Examples on the Web

Twitter is a platform for unmediated broadcasting to roughly a quarter billion active users. —Roger Mcnamee, Time, 19 Dec. 2022

Rewatching the show after 25 years was an oddly unmediated, even moving experience, like dreaming or getting stoned. —Gabriel Rom, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022

Monetization of microblogging proved to be a challenge, so the platform evolved in steps to its current model of unmediated broadcast to a mass audience. —Roger Mcnamee, Time, 18 Nov. 2022

Libby narrating every step of her rise and fall is a neat trick, but subtracts chances for Danes to show us who Rachel is on her own terms, unmediated. —Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022

Going to museums is one of the last sources of unmediated pleasure for ordinary people: there need not be guides, security barriers, or overly watchful guards. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022

And then there’s a new medium that has risen that is unregulated and unmediated: social media. —Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2022

The spread of literacy in the early modern West was driven by people’s desire to read God’s word for themselves, to be empowered by an experience of unmediated connection. —Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022

With no frills or flourishes, the UK pop artist sings over a relaxed arrangement that keeps you focused on the unmediated message in her lyrics. —Tara Aquino, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1648, in the meaning defined above