Urgency is the need for something to be dealt with at once. A sense of urgency, treat with urgency, lose the urgency.
In management it is half of a famous grid: important and urgent are different things, and the trap is spending all your time on the urgent and none on the important. A sense of urgency is what managers ask for when nothing is actually urgent.
1nounurgencyThe need for something to be dealt with at once.
“The doctor spoke with urgency: the patient needed surgery that night.”
urgency is a need.
From urgent, from Latin urgere, to press or drive.
Latin
urgentia
English, today
urgency
From urgent + ency or Latin urgentia.
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