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)
  • demand,
  • preoccupation,
  • driving,
  • hang-up,
  • force,
  • engrossment,
  • tiger by the tail,
  • monkey*,
  • prepossession,
  • hangup,
  • duty,
  • have on the brain,
  • obsession,
  • hang up,
  • constraint,
  • coercion,
  • drive.
  •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,
  • acuteness,
  • want,
  • requirement,
  • wont,
  • turning point*,
  • scrape*,
  • jam,
  • pinch.
  •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.
  •importance (noun)
  • eminence,
  • weight,
  • status,
  • predominance,
  • priority,
  • emphasis.
  •importunity (noun)
  • importunity.
  •matter of life and death (noun)
  • matter life death,
  • matter life and death,
  • grave affairs,
  • case need,
  • matter necessity,
  • vitalnesses,
  • necessitudes,
  • matter of life death,
  • case emergency.
  •necessity (noun)
  • indispensabilities,
  • pre conditions,
  • in-dispensability,
  • in dispensability,
  • un-deniabilities,
  • pre-condition,
  • un-deniability,
  • in dispensabilities,
  • ex actions,
  • un deniabilities,
  • pre requisites,
  • no choices,
  • pre requisite,
  • in-dispensabilities,
  • life death,
  • ex action,
  • no alternatives,
  • ex-action,
  • undeniabilities,
  • un deniability,
  • ex-actions,
  • pre condition.
  •need (noun)
  • in adequacy,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-adequacy,
  • in-adequacies,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • the urges,
  • in-sufficiency,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • in sufficiency.
  •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.
  •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:

  •Other relevant words:
  • crunch,
  • spunk,
  • antecedency,
  • ado,
  • fate,
  • imminence,
  • aggressiveness,
  • Dunning,
  • get-up-and-go,
  • prod,
  • superiority,
  • to-do,
  • essentiality,
  • oppression,
  • insistency,
  • precipitousness,
  • cajolery,
  • effectiveness,
  • crowd,
  • acrimony,
  • spurring,
  • spirt,
  • effort,
  • right,
  • enterprise,
  • precursor,
  • pep,
  • incisiveness,
  • splutter,
  • demands,
  • blandishment,
  • goading,
  • criticality,
  • zip,
  • fuss,
  • goad,
  • anteriority,
  • no joke,
  • teasing,
  • dominion,
  • acceleration,
  • despatch,
  • misfortune,
  • Plaguing,
  • affliction,
  • rank,
  • prodding,
  • causticity,
  • rash impulse,
  • Neediness,
  • prefixation,
  • vexation,
  • precedence,
  • preceding,
  • harshness,
  • ambitiousness,
  • indigence,
  • initiative,
  • antecedence,
  • pertinacity,
  • seniority,
  • stew,
  • motion,
  • sweat,
  • appetite,
  • pother,
  • spur,
  • energy,
  • problem,
  • disquiet,
  • impulsion,
  • Anteposition,
  • immediacy,
  • spurt,
  • crush,
  • urgent need,
  • fidget,
  • Exigence,
  • pungency,
  • Plying,
  • imperative,
  • magnitude,
  • lead,
  • impetus,
  • motive,
  • impulse,
  • adversity,
  • Importunacy,
  • burden,
  • high pressure,
  • coaxing,
  • prerogative,
  • no laughing matter,
  • flutter,
  • vim,
  • extremity,
  • pre-eminence,
  • incitement,
  • albatross,
  • virulence,
  • straits,
  • Difficulties,
  • pressing,
  • clutch,
  • urging,
  • precession,
  • sharpness,
  • ambition,
  • Prothesis,
  • edge,
  • insistence,
  • preference,
  • turmoil,
  • industry,
  • primacy,
  • agitation,
  • importunateness,
  • Cajolement,
  • use,
  • determination,
  • trouble,
  • vigour,
  • instancy,
  • forced march,
  • pestering,
  • predicament,
  • wheedling,
  • front position,
  • buttonholing,
  • dither,
  • stir,
  • prelude,
  • nagging,
  • brusquerie,
  • extreme,
  • upset,
  • precedency,
  • load,
  • pertinaciousness.

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.