'Exigency' definitions:
Definition of 'exigency'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Exigency'
From: GCIDE
- Exigency \Ex"i*gen*cy\, n.; pl. Exigencies. [LL. exigentia: cf. F. exigence.] The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The present exigency of his affairs." --Ludlow.
- Syn: Demand; urgency; distress; pressure; emergency; necessity; crisis. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exigency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- case of need,
- climacteric,
- clutch,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- demandingness,
- dire necessity,
- drive,
- emergency,
- exigence,
- extremity,
- high pressure,
- hinge,
- immediacy,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- importunacy,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- insistence,
- matter of necessity,
- pass,
- persistence,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pinch,
- predicament,
- press,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- rub,
- strait,
- stress,
- tension,
- turn,
- turning,
- turning point,
- urge,
- urgency,
- urgent need