Synonyms for urgency
All synonyms
Noun
1. Exigency — insistence, pressure, urge
exigency, need, necessity, emergency, pressure, stress, insistence, constraint, press, importunity, exigence
Definitions
- n. 1
Insistence, pressure, urge.
I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.
Forms
- Plural
- urgencies → exigencies, needs, necessities, emergencies…
Example sentences
- pressure He has to have his blood pressure taken every day.
- emergency What number should I call in case of an emergency?
- necessity He said that necessity is the mother of invention.
By length
- 4 letters
- need1
- 5 letters
- press1, haste1
- 6 letters
- stress1
- 8 letters
- pressure2, exigency4, exigence, clamancy
- 9 letters
- emergency4, necessity4
- 10 letters
- insistence3, constraint2
- 11 letters
- importunity
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pressure2 = 2 syllables).