urgency
Nouns
- (n) the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
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(n) pressing importance requiring speedy action
- the urgency of his need
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(n) 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
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(n) insistent solicitation and entreaty
- his importunity left me no alternative but to agree