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URGENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pressing importance requiring speedy action
Example:
the urgency of his need
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("urgency" is a kind of...):
importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "urgency"):
edge; sharpness (the attribute of urgency in tone of voice)
imperativeness; instancy (the quality of being insistent)
Derivation:
urgent (compelling immediate action)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Insistent solicitation and entreaty
Example:
his importunity left me no alternative but to agree
Synonyms:
importunity; urgency; urging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("urgency" is a kind of...):
solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)
Derivation:
urge (push for something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An urgent situation calling for prompt action
Example:
they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("urgency" is a kind of...):
situation (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty)
Derivation:
urgent (compelling immediate action)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("urgency" is a kind of...):
necessity (the condition of being essential or indispensable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "urgency"):
haste; hurry (a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry)
imperativeness; insistence; insistency; press; pressure (the state of demanding notice or attention)
criticality; criticalness; cruciality (a state of critical urgency)
Context examples:
Test codes of questionnaire questions associated with the urgency perception scale questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC Questionnaire UPS Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
In September 2016, the UN General Assembly highlighted the urgency of limiting antibiotic use in animal farms which is the leading cause of drug resistance.
(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)
What happens when the urgency to contain and stop the impact of COVID-19, or for that matter cholera, polio, measles and Ebola, reaches populations unable to respond?
(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)
They include urinary frequency and urgency, dysuria, nocturia, incomplete voiding, and poor stream during urination.
(Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)
Urgency Perception Scale test name.
(CDISC Questionnaire UPS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Urgency Perception Scale test code.
(CDISC Questionnaire UPS Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Unless global warming is curbed as a matter of urgency and appropriate adaptation measures are taken, about 350 million Europeans could be exposed to harmful climate extremes on an annual basis by the end of this century, the report said.
(Study: Climate Change Will Bring 50-Fold Rise in Europe Weather-related Deaths, VOA News)
Miss Crawford had protected her only for the time; and if she were applied to again among themselves with all the authoritative urgency that Tom and Maria were capable of, and Edmund perhaps away, what should she do?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The Admiral's kind urgency came in support of his wife's; they would not be refused; they compressed themselves into the smallest possible space to leave her a corner, and Captain Wentworth, without saying a word, turned to her, and quietly obliged her to be assisted into the carriage.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Yet that she should be found is become a matter of serious urgency: advertisements have been put in all the papers; I myself have received a letter from one Mr. Briggs, a solicitor, communicating the details I have just imparted.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
