urgency
/ˈəːdʒ(ə)nsi
/noun [mass noun]
1Importance requiring swift action: the discovery of the ozone hole gave urgency to the issue of CFCs [count noun]: these are the grave urgencies facing us...
- Reform of the social model is therefore a matter of urgency.
- Now, moreover, with the nation in an economic downturn, is not the time to assert the urgency of passing referendum legislation.
- Yet, the dispersion of education only underscores with renewed urgency the significance of formal spheres of learning.
Synonyms
importance, top priority, imperativeness, weight, weightiness, gravity, necessity, exigency, seriousness, momentousness, cruciality, extremity, hurry, haste
2An earnest and persistent quality; insistence: Emilia heard the urgency in his voice...
- The rhythmic urgency of the second movement Allegro was striking.
- At that very moment, Richard appeared in the open doorway, a look of urgency in his eyes.
- "We have to find a way to bring our people closer together, to show more patience and understanding," Ramon told me with urgency in his voice.
Synonyms
insistence, persistence, determination, resolution, tenacity, obstinacy, doggedness;
importunateness, clamour, clamorousness, earnestness, pleading, begging
Rhymes
- warmth
- warm the cockles of one's heart
- warm to/towards (or warm up to/towards)
- warm up
- warm work
- warn
- warner
- Warner Brothers
- Warner, Pop
- Warner Robins
- Warne, Shane
- warning
- warning bell
- warning coloration
- warningly
- warning track
- warning triangle
- warn someone off
- warn someone off the course
- War of 1812
- war of attrition
- War Office
- war of nerves
- war of words
- warp