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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
exigency
n 1: a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency"
2: a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that
requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an
emergency" [syn: emergency, pinch]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "exigency":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
emergency, pinch
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