Synonyms for urgency
ˈɜr dʒən siur·gen·cy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Importance
   • Necessity
   • Situation

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urgencynoun

   Synonyms:
   insistence, pressure, importunity, exigency, stress, necessity, incitement

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1. List of paraphrases for "urgency":

   urgent, emergency, urgence, exigency, haste, emergencies, urgently

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1. Pascal Sciarini:

   There is a deep and durable change in people's concerns and a new general awareness of the urgency, the expected progress of the Greens and Green Liberals (GLP) can clearly be explained by the environmental concerns linked to climate change.

2. Rob Leathern:

   We've been training our automated systems to distinguish medical masks from non-medical masks and get better at detecting violating content with false urgency and health claims. While our enforcement won't ever be perfect, it will get better with time.

3. Ozlem Tureci:

   It’s about the effort of many, our team at BioNTech, all the partners who were involved, also governments, regulatory authorities, which worked together with a sense of urgency, the way we see it, this is an acknowledgement of this effort and also a celebration of science.

4. Jennifer Aulwes:

   This, I think, heightens our level of urgency about it.

5. State John Kerry:

   We have a critical couple of weeks ahead of us, but we are not feeling a sense of urgency that we have to get any deal. We have to get the right deal.