Need and Urgency

Need

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

Urgency is a synonym for need in emergency topic. In some cases you can use "Urgency" instead a noun "Need", when it comes to topics like want, necessity, exigency, crisis.

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

Urgency

Urgency noun - The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.
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Synonyms for Urgency

Need is a synonym for urgency in importance topic. You can use "Need" instead a noun "Urgency", if it concerns topics such as necessity, exigency, imperativeness.

Nearby Words: urgent, urgently

How words are described

physical physical need physical urgency
genuine genuine need genuine urgency
sheer sheer need sheer urgency
actual actual need actual urgency
Other adjectives: real, extreme, little, new, immediate, desperate, less, further, greater, increasing, perceived.

Both words in one sentence

  • Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S4 E16 "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies" Jerkass Has a Point: As mean as he is to the other breezies, Seabreeze is right to stress the urgency of their need to return home while the other Breezies are slacking off.
  • If he starts sounding riled up at all, it's usually to get across to someone else the need for urgency, or anger either at who inflicted the casualty or who's making it hard to treat it, not panic.
  • That leaves Sabrina a few minutes to break the spell so Zelda can transport the dance back to Earth, which adds additional urgency to the plot on top of the usual need to keep magic secret.
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