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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Urgency \Ur"gen*cy\, noun [Cf. F. urgence.] The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
urgency
noun
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}, {urging}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "urgency": antecedence, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, case of need, clutch, coaxing, compulsion, constraint, crisis, crunch, demandingness, dire necessity, dominion, drive, dunning, emergency, exigence, exigency, extremity, front position, high pressure, immediacy, imperative, imperativeness, importance, importunacy, importunateness, importunity, impulse, impulsion, insistence, matter of necessity, nagging, necessity, need, persistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pestering, pinch, plaguing, plying, precedence, precedency, preceding, precession, precursor, predicament, preference, prefixation, prelude, press, pressing, pressingness, pressure, priority, prothesis, push, rash impulse, seriousness, stress, superiority, teasing, tension, the lead, top priority, urge, urgent need, urging, wheedling
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