urgency
/ˈɜː.d͡ʒən.si/US/ˈɝ.d͡ʒən.si/
urgency noun: the quality or condition of being urgent.
Noun
urgency (countable and uncountable, plural urgencies)
- The quality or condition of being urgent.
- the urgency of a demand
- Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport
- Insistence, pressure, urge.
- I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.
- A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.
urgency meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
urgency in Hindi
- quality or condition of being urgent
- तत्कालीन tatkālīn, तत्काल tatkāl
urgency in Tamil
- உடனடித் தேவை, படுவிரைவுடனான, விரைவு, திடீர் சிறுநீர்கழிப்புணர்வு
urgency in Urdu
- چاہ, ضرورت
urgency in Telugu
- quality or condition of being urgent
- తొందర tondara
More languagesFewer languages
- urgency in Malayalam
- തിരക്ക്, നിർബ്ബന്ധം, ത്വര, ആവശ്യകത
- urgency in Kannada
- ಅವಸರ, ಅಸವಸ, ಚಚ್ಚರ, ಚೆಚ್ಚರ
- urgency in Punjabi
- ਦਬਾਅ dabāa
- urgency in Nepali
- अत्यावश्यकता, तत्कालता
- urgency in Indonesian
- kêgêntingan
- urgency in Persian
- اورژانس
Examples of urgency in a sentence
- Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.
- Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.
- Because of their urgency, the agent air-freights the parts.
Synonyms of urgency
Forms of urgency
| plural | urgencies |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | urgence |
Origin of urgency
From urgent + -ency or Latin urgentia.
Words formed from urgency
Words that rhyme with urgency
Questions about urgency
- What does urgency mean?
- Urgency means the quality or condition of being urgent.
- What is urgency in Hindi?
- Urgency in Hindi is तत्कालीन (tatkālīn), तत्काल (tatkāl). See Urgency meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is urgency?
- Urgency is a noun.
- How do you pronounce urgency?
- Urgency is pronounced /ˈɜː.d͡ʒən.si/ (UK).
- What is the plural of urgency?
- The plural of urgency is urgencies.
Words near urgency in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: urgency (page history and authors); urgency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urgency (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urgency (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urgency (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਦਬਾਅ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); urgency (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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