urgency

English

Etymology

probably from urgent +‎ -cy

Noun

urgency (countable and uncountable, plural urgencies)

1. The quality or condition of being urgent

   the urgency of a demand

   • 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.

2. insistence, pressure

   I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.

Synonyms

• exigency

Translations

quality or condition of being urgent

• Catalan: urgència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緊迫／紧迫 (zh) (jǐnpò), 紧迫 (zh) (jǐnpò)

• Czech: naléhavost f
• Esperanto: urĝeco
• Finnish: kiireellisyys (fi)
• French: urgence (fr) f
• Galician: urxencia (gl) f
• German: Dringlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: επείγον (el) n (epeígon)
• Ido: urjanteso, urjo (io)
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• Italian: urgenza (it) f, urgenze (it) f pl
• Ladino: urjensia f
• Latin: exigentia f
• Persian: اورژانس (fa)
• Portuguese: urgência (pt)
• Romanian: urgență (ro) f
• Russian: сро́чность (ru) f (sróčnostʹ)
• Spanish: urgencia (es) f, premura, apremio (es) m, perentoriedad f
• Telugu: తొందర (te) (tondara)
• Turkish: aciliyet (tr), ivedilik (tr)
• Westrobothnian: