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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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#239372importunity
#265185indispensability

How to use urgency in a sentence?

  1. Daniel Colón Ramos:

    All those emergencies and collective trauma primed Puerto Rico and the leadership, the scientific community, the healthcare community, there was a sense of urgency. A lot of people that I have worked with, their attitude was like : Not on my watch. Not again.

  2. Barbara Abdeni Massaad:

    I went to visit the refugee camp, not really knowing what to expect, i felt the urgency from the moment I set foot in the refugee camp and witnessed their suffering with my own eyes.

  3. Alex Padilla:

    Dreamers are integrated in our communities and contribute billions of dollars to our economy. They work as teachers, nurses, farm workers, and in many other essential jobs — and they deserve relief once and for all. I call on all my colleagues to treat this issue with the urgency it deserves.

  4. Rahul Gupta:

    We know from evaluations that we've done, because there's a strong evaluation component, that when this work is happening in those 700 communities across the country, the rates of substance use in youth like tobacco, drugs, marijuana and others goes down as compared to those that don't have these programs in their communities, this is a top priority, with a sense of urgency to address the abuse crisis, but it starts with prevention and prevention is the best return on investment when you look at it. And getting money directly to communities is so vital to make sure that [prevention programs] are working and they're working effectively.

  5. Karim Sadjapour:

    I think the administration now has a heightened sense of urgency to revise the deal before Raisi and a new hard-line team is inaugurated.


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