unmediated

adjective un·me·di·at·ed \ ˌən-ˈmē-dē-ˌā-təd \

Updated on: 2 Mar 2018

Definition of unmediated

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

experience unmediated by artifice

Examples of unmediated in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of unmediated from the Web

To create this illusion of unmediated reality, Kiarostami employed a 12-person special effects team and more than half a dozen animal wranglers.

— ben sachs, Chicago Reader, "24 Frames, the final feature from Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, may send you into a trance," 6 Feb. 2018
Some of his inventive proto-minimalist scores have begun to surface in concert halls, but this new recording is something quite different — a chance to encounter Eastman’s brilliantly anarchic imagination in what seems to be raw, unmediated form.

— joshua kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, "CD Review: Julius Eastman, The Zürich Concert," 5 Jan. 2018
His tweets are the most visible manifestation of his impulses: generated from a personal Twitter account and shockingly unmediated.

— john culhane, Slate Magazine, "Can Obama Sue Trump for Libel?," 8 Mar. 2017
As Trump approached the microphone in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday, aides winced at the prospect of an unmediated president.

— Alaska Dispatch News, "Analysis: Trump gives white supremacists an unequivocal boost," 16 Aug. 2017
Szyk’s art spoke with unmediated passion and moral clarity.

— tad taube, The Mercury News, "Taube: Few alive remember Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but art can be eternal," 15 May 2017
Contact with violence through any media can lead to what is called vicarious traumatization — and may, for some people, be more upsetting than an unmediated experience.

— teddy wayne, New York Times, "The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet," 10 Sep. 2016

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