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Urgency

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
urgency

1530s, probably from urgent + -cy.

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urgency

n. The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

WordNet
urgency
  1. n. 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, urging]

Wikipedia
Urgency

Urgency may refer to:

  • Pan-pan, international radio call for an emergency posing no imminent danger
  • Urinary urgency, medical condition
  • Urgency (Low Level Flight album), 2007
  • Urgency (The Pale Pacific album), 2005
Urgency (Low Level Flight album)

Urgency is the debut album from the Canadian alternative rock band Low Level Flight, released on March 27, 2007. The album spawned three singles: "Change for Me", "Say" and "Turnaround".

Urgency (The Pale Pacific album)

Urgency is the fourth album by Bellingham, Washington indie rock band The Pale Pacific (formerly The Pale).

Usage examples of "urgency".

In understandably emphasizing the importance and the urgency of eco-holistic fit, the holists have absolutized the Lower-Right quadrant, which, in thus sealing it off from any true integration, condemns it to the fate of all fragments.

Skin acrawl with urgency, Taverik strode down to the beached boat and muffled the badly mismatched oars.

But if this were done outside a case of urgency, each would sin grievously, both the baptizer and the baptized, and thus the baptismal effect would be frustrated, although the sacrament itself would not be invalidated.

Again it is Errol Santos NYPD with his attendant numbers, home, work, beeper, cell-phone, a play for urgency.

She strained against Ki, her arms clutching him tightly around his back, while inside, Ki could feel his urgency burgeoning with every surge of her satiny sheath.

Shuech threw flaming cacodyl, and the caustic spread over one of the caterpillar figures, which batted without urgency at the fire.

He almost turned to follow the cobber, then remembered his own urgency and continued into the joint command post.

The kiss deepened with mutual urgency, and he slid his hands upward, stopping just under the swell of her breasts before he started another downward slide.

So this, then, was the way a man kissed, the way his mouth moved with hard urgency on yours, Rosy thought dizzily, the way the embrace involved not just the pressure of his mouth on your own but the whole of his body.

From within that approaching storm the bloodstained warrior of her nightmares was riding down on her, blue eyes gleaming ferociously, beating his straining mount with merciless urgency.

The precise causal connection between this tiny biological happenstance, and a few other minor variations that exist in that slice of the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash-such as Tricia McMillan failing to leave with Zaphod Beeblebrox, abnormally low sales of pecan-flavoured ice-cream and the fact that the Earth on which all this occurred did not get demolished by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass-is currently sitting at number 4,763,984,132 on the research project priority list at what was once the History Department of the University of MaxiMegalon, and no one currently at the prayer meeting by the poolside appears to feel any sense of urgency about the problem.

That projection continued for a long time, as long as lasted the necessity and urgency to rediscover a site of freedom that could continue the teleological vision of which Hegelian historicism is perhaps the highest expression.

The young woman in uniform pushed her way through the ilding in Tel crowd of people hurrying in and out of the bu Aviv, pressed by the urgency of war.

There was an unaccustomed urgency in her voice, and it spurred Kof and Lendle to action.

For, despite the urgency which drove him on, Xask could not, after all, travel at any faster pace than whimpering little Murg would maintain, otherwise he would have had to leave the pitiful fellow behind.