Definition for Exigency:

• Urgency or state of being urgent; pressing necessity; a case which demands immediate action.

Synonyms for Exigency:

• n.

  •
  • trouble,
  • help.
  •
  • necessary.
  •
  • pass,
  • decide.
  •
  • over,
  • demand.
  •accident (noun)
  • contingency.
  •accident, trouble (noun)
  • disaster.
  •circumstance (noun)
  • supervention,
  • phase,
  • where it's at,
  • time.
  •compulsion (noun)
  • have on the brain,
  • obsession,
  • tiger by the tail,
  • hang up.
  •consequence (noun)
  • re-nown,
  • weightiness,
  • piths,
  • renowns,
  • re nown,
  • weightinesses,
  • import,
  • portent,
  • Fame.
  •consideration (noun)
  • ex-tent,
  • Minutiae,
  • ex tent,
  • extent,
  • ex tents,
  • ex-tents.
  •contingency (noun)
  • cross-roads,
  • if it's cool,
  • Opportunities,
  • likelihood,
  • Uncertainties.
  •crisis (noun)
  • turning point,
  • crucial point,
  • strait,
  • predicament,
  • crux,
  • critical moment,
  • crisis,
  • key point,
  • climax,
  • emergency.
  •danger (noun)
  • double trouble,
  • jeopardy,
  • Imperilment,
  • in security,
  • thin ice,
  • risky business,
  • exposure,
  • insecurity,
  • slipperiness.
  •disaster (noun)
  • the worst,
  • de feats,
  • mis chance,
  • fell strokes,
  • the worsts,
  • de feat,
  • mis-chances,
  • fiasco,
  • act god,
  • mis-chance,
  • fell stroke,
  • de-feats,
  • un doings,
  • up set,
  • roughs,
  • up sets,
  • hard luck,
  • mis chances,
  • up-sets,
  • un doing,
  • re-verse,
  • up-set,
  • mis adventure,
  • ill lucks,
  • re verse,
  • mis-adventure,
  • mis adventures,
  • un-doings,
  • de-feat,
  • washout,
  • hard lucks,
  • ill luck,
  • mis-adventures,
  • un-doing.
  •distress (noun)
  • tough luck,
  • dis tresses,
  • ticklish spot,
  • can worms,
  • rotten lucks,
  • holy messes,
  • dis tress,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis-tresses,
  • tough break,
  • rotten luck,
  • hard times,
  • hard time,
  • holy mess,
  • unholy messes,
  • tough breaks,
  • unholy mess,
  • ticklish spots,
  • tough lucks.
  •drive, obligation (noun)
  • compulsion.
  •emergency (noun)
  • meltdowns,
  • meltdown.
  •exigence (noun)
  • Exigencies.
  •exigency (noun)
  • pinch.
  •gravity (noun)
  • staidness,
  • momentousness,
  • sedateness,
  • hazardousnesses,
  • severity,
  • perilousnesses,
  • graveness,
  • hazardousness,
  • perilousness.
  •happening, development (noun)
  • occurrence.
  •hardship, adversity (noun)
  • distress.
  •hazard, troublesome situation (noun)
  • danger.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • desperation.
  •hot spot (noun)
  • LS,
  • L.
  •pinch (noun)
  • tight squeeze,
  • tight spot.
  •predicament (noun)
  • soups,
  • rough go,
  • predicaments,
  • tall order ticklish spot tight situation trouble,
  • hot spot,
  • large order,
  • soup.
  •pressure (noun)
  • un-naturalness,
  • full court presses,
  • un naturalness,
  • full court press,
  • un naturalnesses,
  • un-naturalnesses.
  •requirement (noun)
  • requirement.
  •requirement/requisite (noun)
  • pro-vision,
  • pro-visions,
  • pro vision,
  • requirements,
  • pro visions.
  •seriousness, importance (noun)
  • gravity.
  •solemnness (noun)
  • Solemnness.
  •standard, principle of behavior (noun)
  • law.
  •state (noun)
  • exigency.
  •strait (noun)
  • choke point,
  • be wilderments,
  • be-wilderment,
  • be wilderment,
  • be-wilderments,
  • choke points.
  •turning point (noun)
  • kairotic moment,
  • critical moments,
  • crucial occurrences,
  • Critical Periods,
  • transition,
  • turn the tide,
  • race against times,
  • rising action,
  • Critical Period,
  • crucial moments,
  • race against time,
  • kairotic moments,
  • decisive moment,
  • crucial moment,
  • when push comes shove,
  • pivotal moment,
  • when push comes to shove,
  • pivotal moments,
  • decisive moments,
  • peripeteias,
  • peripeteia,
  • turn tide,
  • crucial occurrence,
  • crucial period,
  • turn of the tide,
  • rising actions,
  • high noon,
  • turning-point,
  • crucial periods,
  • turn of tide.
  •urgency (noun)
  • pressings,
  • instancies,
  • importunateness,
  • Importunities,
  • instancy,
  • criticalities,
  • importunity,
  • importunatenesses,
  • criticality,
  • urgency.
  •urgent matter (noun)
  • matter of life and death.
  •want (noun)
  • exiguousnesses,
  • exiguousness,
  • pauperisms,
  • pauperism,
  • penury,
  • skimpinesses,
  • skimpiness,
  • famine.
  •zero hour (noun)
  • jumping off point,
  • jumping off points,
  • vital moment,
  • jumpingoff points,
  • the time,
  • d days,
  • vital moments,
  • h hours,
  • d day,
  • crisis points,
  • appointed hours,
  • the times,
  • h-hours,
  • hhour,
  • jumping-off point,
  • appointed hour,
  • h hour,
  • dday,
  • start times,
  • ddays,
  • d-days,
  • start time,
  • target day,
  • jumpingoff point,
  • a days,
  • crisis point,
  • a day,
  • hhours,
  • jumping-off points,
  • zero-hour,
  • target days.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lack,
  • circumstance,
  • Exigence,
  • hot water.
  •
  • poverty,
  • zero hour,
  • difficulty,
  • climacteric,
  • event.
  •
  • consideration.
  •
  • juncture,
  • crossroad.
  •
  • head.

Paraphrases for Exigency:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    urgent, Emergencies, urgent-action, contingency, dire, imperative.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    urgency, emergency, urgent, contingency, imperative.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    pressing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    requirement.

Antonyms for Exigency:

• n.

  • difficulty
    miracle, blessing, benefit, comfort, good, good fortune, advantage, solution, pleasure, boon, calm, peace, ease, plenty.
  • Other antonyms:
    freedom, possibility, fortuity, dubiousness, doubt, option, contingency, uncertainty, choice, doubtfulness.

Exigency Sentence Examples:

• It was an inevitable result of a military exigency confronted by a fleet only recently equipped.

• Think of the noblest moment that you ever passed, of the time when, lifted up to the heights of glory, or bowed down into the very depths of sorrow, every power that was in you was called forth to meet the exigency or to do the work.

Homophones for Exigency:

• easygoing, exogamous, equanimous, eugenics, Eugene Ionesco, echoing, echinacea, echinococcosis, easy going, Equus Kiang, Eugene Sue, easing, Equus Hemionus, exogenic, ezo-yama-hagi, economics, easiness, Equus Asinus, eugenic, ecchymosis, egomaniac, e. e. cummings, ecumenic, echinus, Euxine Sea, echeneis, essence, Eysenck, economize, equinox, exchange, economic, exogamic, echinococcus, eggnog, economise, exogenous.

Hyponym for Exigency:

• n.

  • state
    crisis.