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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity;

2. pressing importance requiring speedy action;
- Example: "the urgency of his need"

3. an urgent situation calling for prompt action;
- Example: "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"
- Example: "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"

4. insistent solicitation and entreaty;
- Example: "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree"
[syn: importunity, urgency, urging]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Urgency \Ur"gen*cy\, n. [Cf. F. urgence.]
   The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence;
   pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

urgency
    n 1: the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent
         necessity
    2: pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of
       his need"
    3: 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"
    4: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me
       no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity, urgency,
       urging]