Hypertext Webster Gateway: "urgency"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]


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