urgency

[ur-juhn-see]

noun

plural

urgencies 

1. urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.

2. urgencies, urgent requirements or needs.

Other Word Forms

• superurgency noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of urgency¹

First recorded in 1530–40; from Late Latin urgentia “pressure,” from urgent-, stem of urgēns “pressing” ( urgent ) + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

She said the Liberal Democrats were calling for the government to "reconsider" its plans "as a matter of urgency".

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Given relatively solid demand and financial conditions that are “a bit of a tailwind,” she said, “it doesn’t suggest urgency to be more accommodative.”

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“I researched that euthanasia story with the urgency of someone who could have been a victim,” she writes.

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“That’s an environment where, for me, it doesn’t suggest an urgency to be more accommodative in monetary policy.”

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"The symptoms tend to start as kind of urinary urgency and frequency so people become unable to hold on to their urine," he said.

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Related Words

• desperation 
• necessity 
• pressure 
• seriousness