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urgency

[ ur-juh n-see ]

/ ˈɜr dʒən si /

noun, plural ur·gen·cies.

urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.

urgencies, urgent requirements or needs.

Origin of urgency

1530–40; < Late Latin urgentia pressure; see urgent, -ency

OTHER WORDS FROM urgency

su·per·ur·gen·cy, noun

Words nearby urgency

urfé, urga, urge, urge incontinence, urgel, urgency, urgency incontinence, urgent, urgent care, urgent care center, urger

Example sentences from the Web for urgencies

Who should be more sensitive to the urgencies of a threatened state than he who has the responsibilities of government?

Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science |Hudson Tuttle
It is one thing barely to comply with the urgencies of the case, and to do that which in necessitous circumstances is best.

Ormond, Volume I (of 3) |Charles Brockden Brown
My languors were suspended by the urgencies of this occasion.

Arthur Mervyn |Charles Brockden Brown
I wish, indeed, our own were equally alive to the urgencies of the age.

Cyrus W. Field; his Life and Work |Isabella Field Judson

He had to drive himself physically in order that his mind could respond to Bailly's urgencies.

The Guarded Heights |Wadsworth Camp

Medical definitions for urgencies

urgency

[ ûr′jən-sē ]

n.

A strong desire to urinate, accompanied by a fear of leakage.