Exigency vs. Urgent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Exigency and Urgent
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Exigency
An urgent need or demand
Women worked long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it
He put financial exigency before personal sentiment
Urgent
Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
Exigency
A pressing or urgent situation
"We were caught in a wartime exigency that was beyond any humane, any rational, resistance" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
Urgent
Conveying a sense of pressing importance
An urgent message.
Exigency
An urgent requirement; a pressing need
"distracted by the exigencies of running a business" (Richard Curtis).
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Urgent
Requiring immediate attention.
An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
Exigency
The demands or requirements of a situation.
Urgent
Of people: insistent, solicitous.
Exigency
An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention.
Urgent
Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.
The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.
Exigency
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.
Urgent
Compelling immediate action;
Too pressing to permit of longer delay
The urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'
Bridges in urgent need of repair
Exigency
A pressing or urgent situation;
The health-care exigency
Exigency
A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action;
He never knew what to do in an emergency
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