'Urgency' definitions:
Definition of 'urgency'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
noun
Pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need"
noun
An urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"
noun
Insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity, urgency, urging]
Definition of 'Urgency'
From: GCIDE
- Urgency \Ur"gen*cy\, n. [Cf. F. urgence.] The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'urgency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antecedence,
- antecedency,
- anteposition,
- anteriority,
- blandishment,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- case of need,
- clutch,
- coaxing,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- crisis,
- crunch,
- demandingness,
- dire necessity,
- dominion,
- drive,
- dunning,
- emergency,
- exigence,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- front position,
- high pressure,
- immediacy,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- importance,
- importunacy,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- insistence,
- matter of necessity,
- nagging,
- necessity,
- need,
- persistence,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pestering,
- pinch,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- precedence,
- precedency,
- preceding,
- precession,
- precursor,
- predicament,
- preference,
- prefixation,
- prelude,
- press,
- pressing,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- priority,
- prothesis,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- seriousness,
- stress,
- superiority,
- teasing,
- tension,
- the lead,
- top priority,
- urge,
- urgent need,
- urging,
- wheedling