Urgency

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  urgency
       n 1: the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent
            necessity
       2: pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of
          his need"
       3: 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"
       4: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left
          me no alternative but to agree" [syn: {importunity}, {urging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "urgency":
     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