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urgency

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of urgency

the condition of being very important and needing immediate attention

The urgency of the situation meant that we needed to start right away.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of urgency

exigency, insistence, instancy

account, consequence, import, importance, magnitude, moment, momentousness, significance, weight, weightiness

gravity, seriousness

precedence, priority, right-of-way

ascendancy (also ascendency), preeminence, primacy, supremacy

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of urgency

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