mediately
Not in person
Mediately means through an intermediate step or agency rather than directly.
If you know something mediately, you learned it through another source rather than firsthand experience.
The word is rare and formal, appearing mostly in philosophical contexts where the distinction between direct and indirect knowledge matters: We know the external world only mediately, through our senses.
Agent linking two parties
- indirectlyVia intermediate means
- vicariouslyBy proxy experience
- secondhandHaving had prior ownership
- proxyAuthorized substitute
through · circuitous · roundabout · relay · channeled · brokered · facilitated · delegated
intermediary
Agent linking two parties
- indirectlyVia intermediate means
- vicariouslyBy proxy experience
- secondhandHaving had prior ownership
proxy · through · circuitous · roundabout · relay · channeled · brokered · facilitated · delegated · transmitted
mediatelyimmediately
Without any pause
directly · firsthand · unmediated · straightforwardly · face-to-face
mediatelyimmediately
Without any pause
instantly · straightaway · forthwith · at once · right away
immediately, immediate, mediate, intermediate, mediated, mediates, immediateness