urgency

urgency
Synonyms and related words:
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

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Urgency — may refer to:* Pan pan, international radio call for an emergency posing no imminent danger * Urinary urgency, medical condition …   Wikipedia

  • urgency — index compulsion (coercion), dispatch (promptness), emergency, exigency, force (compulsion), haste …   Law dictionary

  • urgency — 1530s; see URGENT (Cf. urgent) + CY (Cf. cy) …   Etymology dictionary

  • urgency — [ʉr′jən sē] n. pl. urgencies 1. the quality or state of beingurgent; need for action, haste, etc.; stress or pressure, as of necessity 2. insistence; importunity 3. something urgent …   English World dictionary

  • urgency — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ desperate, extreme, great, utmost ▪ a matter of the utmost urgency ▪ added, new ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • urgency — n. 1) urgency about, in (there is no urgency about this matter) 2) (misc.) a sense of urgency * * * [ ɜːdʒ(ə)nsɪ] in (there is no urgency about this matter) (misc.) a sense of urgency urgency about …   Combinatory dictionary

  • urgency — ur|gen|cy [ ɜrdʒənsi ] noun uncount 1. ) the need to deal with something quickly: Everyone agrees on the urgency of the situation. matter of urgency: Reducing damage to the area is a matter of great urgency. sense of urgency: The sign is intended …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • urgency — UK [ˈɜː(r)dʒ(ə)nsɪ] / US [ˈɜrdʒənsɪ] noun [uncountable] 1) the need to deal with something quickly Everyone agrees on the urgency of the situation. matter of urgency: Reducing damage to the area is a matter of great urgency. sense of urgency: The …   English dictionary

  • urgency — noun 1. the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑necessity • Hyponyms: ↑hurry, ↑haste, ↑imperativeness, ↑insistence, ↑in …   Useful english dictionary

  • urgency — noun The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion …   Wiktionary

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