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Synonyms for urgency
ˈɜr dʒən siur·gen·cy

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.3 / 4 votes

  1. urgency

    Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

    Synonyms:
    compulsion, destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, want

    Antonyms:
    choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

    Preposition:
    The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  1. urgencynoun

    the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity

    Synonyms:
    importunity, urging

  2. urgencynoun

    pressing importance requiring speedy action

    "the urgency of his need"

    Synonyms:
    importunity, urging

  3. urgencynoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    importunity, urging

  4. importunity, urgency, urgingnoun

    insistent solicitation and entreaty

    "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree"

    Synonyms:
    goading, spurring, prod, goad, importunity, urging, prodding, spur

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. urgencynoun

    Synonyms:
    pressure, press, exigency, emergency, stress, necessity, pressing want

  2. urgencynoun

    Synonyms:
    importunity, entreaty, insistence, solicitation

  3. urgencynoun

    Synonyms:
    incitement, stimulus, spur, goad

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. urgencynoun

    Synonyms:
    insistence, pressure, importunity, exigency, stress, necessity, incitement

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "urgency":

    urgent, emergency, urgence, exigency, haste, emergencies, urgently

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How to use urgency in a sentence?

  1. Jim Hackett:

    It's my judgment the time is to move with urgency now to fully integrate and accelerate Ford's transformation, we're now in execution mode and what the company needs is to come together.

  2. Scott Walker:

    I think before I was trying to be respectful of other candidates. We haven't gone after the other candidates. But I think people want to see a sense of urgency, feel a sense of urgency. They want to see it, they want to feel it, and so we've started to articulate that.

  3. State John Kerry:

    Everybody is seized by the urgency. We have been all along but the migration levels and continued destruction, the danger of potential augmentation by any unilateral moves puts a high premium on diplomacy at this moment.

  4. Kadir Kemal:

    And now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling, and a sense of the future for these people, that’s our obligation now.

  5. Michael Jones:

    The huge volume of petitions being created right now speaks to the urgency, concern and anxiety that millions of Americans feel as the COVID-19 pandemic dominates our day-to-day lives.


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