Urgency
['ɜːdʒ(ə)nsɪ] or ['ɝdʒənsi]
Definition
(noun.) pressing importance requiring speedy action; 'the urgency of his need'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.
Typed by Humphrey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
Checked by Lanny
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pressure, press, exigency, emergency, stress, necessity, pressing want.[2]. Importunity, entreaty, insistence, solicitation.[3]. Incitement, stimulus, spur, goad.
Typist: Martha
Examples
- All the Cainozoic mammals were doing this one thing in common under the urgency of a common necessity; they were all growing brain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A century later the same urgency was to sweep Germany into a series of bloody Peasant Wars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The future just as future lacks urgency and body. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Well, no, not the urgency of the thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, then,' said Mr. Muzzle, 'I'm very sorry to have to explain myself before ladies, but the urgency of the case will be my excuse. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And now you see the deadly urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to caution. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I tarry not, said the Pilgrim, giving way to the urgency of his companion; but I must secure the means of leaving this place--follow me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There is a continuing urgency towards fresh change. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But, in spite of all her friends' urgency, and her own wish of seeing Ireland, Miss Fairfax prefers devoting the time to you and Mrs. Bates? Jane Austen. Emma.
- I feared that no telegram would convince you of the absolute urgency of the case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Margaret almost repented the urgency with which she had entreated him to go to London; it was throwing more chances of detection in his way. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Had Golz had this and was it the urgency and the lack of time and the circumstances that made it? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She had risen and stood before him, once more completely mastered by the inner urgency of the moment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Editor: Shanna