Definition for Urgency:

• Pressure of difficulty or necessity; entreaty; importunity.

Synonyms for Urgency:

• n.

  •
  • craving,
  • hankering,
  • wish,
  • thirst,
  • ache,
  • inclination,
  • desire,
  • yearning,
  • longing,
  • urge.
  •attribute (noun)
  • urgency.
  •compulsion (noun)
  • hangup,
  • coercion,
  • tiger by the tail,
  • hang up,
  • have on the brain,
  • obsession,
  • prepossession,
  • hang-up,
  • constraint,
  • force,
  • engrossment,
  • drive,
  • duty,
  • demand,
  • driving,
  • preoccupation.
  •earnestness (noun)
  • concentration,
  • eagerness,
  • absorption,
  • resolution,
  • firmness,
  • devotion,
  • decision,
  • perseverance,
  • tenacity,
  • sincerity,
  • ardor,
  • doggedness,
  • sobriety,
  • keenness,
  • deliberation,
  • vehemence,
  • resolve,
  • purposefulness,
  • passion,
  • attentiveness,
  • intensity,
  • fervor,
  • solemnity,
  • enthusiasm.
  •emergency (noun)
  • difficulty,
  • depression,
  • push,
  • distress,
  • misadventure,
  • accident,
  • zero hour,
  • hole,
  • squeeze,
  • tension,
  • fix,
  • scrape.
  •exigency/exigence (noun)
  • hardship,
  • pinch,
  • want,
  • acuteness,
  • jam,
  • wont,
  • requirement.
  •gravity (noun)
  • concern,
  • consequence,
  • significance.
  •haste (noun)
  • dash,
  • swiftness,
  • bustle,
  • Hustling,
  • flurry,
  • nimbleness,
  • fleetness,
  • expedition,
  • rashness,
  • dispatch,
  • abruptness,
  • scuttle,
  • quickness,
  • hustle,
  • velocity,
  • pace,
  • Rapidness,
  • carelessness,
  • briskness,
  • incautiousness,
  • alacrity,
  • precipitancy,
  • expeditiousness,
  • precipitateness,
  • celerity,
  • heedlessness,
  • prematureness,
  • scramble,
  • hurriedness,
  • foolhardiness,
  • hurly-burly,
  • scamper,
  • hastiness,
  • promptness,
  • impatience,
  • recklessness,
  • Speediness,
  • scurry,
  • impetuosity,
  • promptitude,
  • feverishness,
  • fastness,
  • haste,
  • rapidity.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • desperation.
  •hurry (noun)
  • commotion,
  • precipitation,
  • rustle,
  • precipitance.
  •pressure (noun)
  • mis-fortunes,
  • un-naturalness,
  • un naturalness,
  • mis fortunes,
  • un naturalnesses,
  • full court presses,
  • un-naturalnesses,
  • mis fortune.
  •requirement/requisite (noun)
  • pro-vision,
  • pro-visos,
  • pro-visions,
  • pro viso,
  • pro-viso,
  • pro vision,
  • pro visos,
  • pro visions.
  •speed (noun)
  • legerity,
  • gait.
  •stress (noun)
  • dis quietudes,
  • apprehensivenesses,
  • mis giving,
  • tensities,
  • over extensions,
  • mis trust,
  • pro-traction,
  • ex tension,
  • dis-quiets,
  • dis-quiet,
  • over-extension,
  • ex-tension,
  • nervous tensions,
  • dis quiet,
  • mis-giving,
  • tautnesses,
  • mis-trust,
  • tightnesses,
  • over extension,
  • dis quiets,
  • pro traction,
  • mis trusts,
  • dis quietude,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • ex-tensions,
  • pro-tractions,
  • over-extensions,
  • dis-quietude,
  • pro tractions,
  • tensenesses.
  •urgency (noun)
  • imminence,
  • criticality,
  • instancy,
  • insistence,
  • pressing,
  • importunateness,
  • urging,
  • importunity,
  • incitement.
  •vigor (noun)
  • dynamism,
  • lustiness,
  • vigorousness,
  • birr,
  • hardiness,
  • get up and go,
  • wellbeing.
  •vigorousness (noun)
  • vim and vigors,
  • vim vigor,
  • vim vigors.
  •zeal (noun)
  • de terminations,
  • de termination,
  • stick to itivenesses,
  • stick to itiveness,
  • stick-to-itivenesses,
  • what-it-take,
  • what it take,
  • de-termination,
  • de-terminations.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • apprehensiveness,
  • committal,
  • compulsion,
  • crisis,
  • criticalness,
  • desideratum,
  • devoir,
  • duress,
  • earnestness,
  • emergency,
  • exigency,
  • graveness,
  • gravity,
  • hazardousness,
  • hurry,
  • imperativeness,
  • importance,
  • indispensability,
  • inevitability,
  • intentness,
  • momentousness,
  • necessity,
  • need,
  • needs,
  • ought,
  • perilousness,
  • persistence,
  • press,
  • pressure,
  • rush,
  • sedateness,
  • serious-mindedness,
  • seriousness,
  • severity,
  • situation,
  • solicitation,
  • speed,
  • staidness,
  • stress,
  • tautness,
  • tenseness,
  • tensity,
  • tightness,
  • vicissitude,
  • vigor,
  • vitalness,
  • vitals,
  • warmth,
  • weightiness,
  • zeal,
  • Desiderata,
  • Exigencies,
  • Hurries,
  • Necessaries,
  • Necessitude,
  • meltdown,
  • Solemnness,
  • requirements,
  • imperatives,
  • inevitabilities,
  • prerequisites,
  • overextension,
  • meltdowns,
  • oughts,
  • overextensions,
  • what it takes,
  • needfulness,
  • stick-to-itiveness,
  • vital part,
  • vim and vigor,
  • committals,
  • demandingness,
  • devoirs,
  • full court press,
  • life or death,
  • nervous tension,
  • no alternative,
  • no choice,
  • pre-conditions,
  • pre-requisite,
  • pre-requisites,
  • pressingness,
  • the urge,
  • undeniability,
  • vital parts,
  • what-it-takes,
  • wonts,
  • case of emergency,
  • case of need,
  • grave affair,
  • matter of necessity,
  • matter of life and death,
  • elephant in the room.
  •v.
  • strain.

Paraphrases for Urgency:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    urge, importance.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    haste, hurry, insistence.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Urgence, urgently.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    exigency, imperative, promptness, rush, rapidity, swiftness, acuity, urgently, severity, matter, acuteness, diligence.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    emergency, Emergencies, urgent.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    immediacy, emergency, necessity, seriousness, urgent, topicality, speed, timeliness, gravity, concern.

Antonyms for Urgency:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    contingency, doubtfulness, possibility, freedom, choice, dubiousness, doubt, uncertainty, fortuity, option.

Urgency Sentence Examples:

• Or had the urgency of what he had to say reached somehow from mind to mind?

• Both generals understood the urgency of the command.

Hypernym for Urgency:

• n.

  • attribute
    edge, instancy, sharpness, imperativeness.
  • state
    criticalness, haste, press, insistence, criticality, hurry, cruciality, pressure, imperativeness, insistency.

Hyponym for Urgency:

• n.

  • attribute
    importance.
  • state
    situation, necessity.