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exigency

/ˈɛksɪd͡ʒənsi/US/ˈɛɡzəd͡ʒənsi/

exigency noun: the demands or requirements of a situation which often demand immediate action.

Noun

exigency (countable and uncountable, plural exigencies)

  1. (in plural) The demands or requirements of a situation which often demand immediate action.
    • My business is with you, and you only. You should not have undertaken your office, unless prepared for its various exigencies.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 226
    • No ordinary man could have escaped those frightful claws when Numa sprang from so short a distance, but Tarzan was no ordinary man. From earliest childhood his muscles had been trained by the fierce exigencies of his existence to act with the rapidity of thought.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 80
  2. An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention.

exigency meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

exigency in Tamil

உற்றுழி, அவசரம், நெருக்கடி

exigency in Urdu

ضرورت

exigency in Malayalam

need, demand, requirement
അവശ്യകാര്യം, ആവശ്യം, അത്യാവശ്യം, ഒഴിച്ചുകൂടായ്മ, അത്യന്താപേക്ഷികത, ആവശ്യകോപാധി
crisis, urgency, difficulty
അത്യാവശ്യം, അടിയന്തരസ്ഥിതി, അടിയന്തരാവശ്യം, അപരിഹാരിത്വം, തിടുക്കം, അടിയന്തരം

exigency in Kannada

ಕದುಬು, ಒತ್ತಂಬರ, ತುರ್ತು, ಅಗತ್ಯತೆ

Synonyms of exigency

Forms of exigency

pluralexigencies

Origin of exigency

From Middle French exigence, from Late Latin exigentia (“urgency”) (from exigēns + -ia), from exigere (“to demand”).

Questions about exigency

What does exigency mean?
Exigency means the demands or requirements of a situation which often demand immediate action.
What is exigency in Tamil?
Exigency in Tamil is உற்றுழி, அவசரம், நெருக்கடி. See Exigency meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exigency?
Exigency is a noun.
How do you pronounce exigency?
Exigency is pronounced /ˈɛksɪd͡ʒənsi/ (UK).
What is the plural of exigency?
The plural of exigency is exigencies.

Words near exigency in the dictionary

  1. exigeante
  2. exigeantes
  3. exigence
  4. exigences
  5. exigencies
  6. exigency
  7. exigendaries
  8. exigendary
  9. exigent
  10. exigent circumstance
  11. exigenter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exigency (page history and authors); exigency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exigency (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exigency (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); exigency (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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