urgency

About 4.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The quality or condition of being urgent.

   the urgency of a demand

2. noun Insistence, pressure, urge.

   I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.

3. noun A sudden and compelling need to urinate or defecate that is difficult to defer.

Similar words

urgent exigency urgently emergency insistence hurry quickly hastiness haste swiftness

Often followed by

of to and in for that about with is

Word family

urgencies