Exigency
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɛksɪd͡ʒənsi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Exigency is a noun meaning An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention.
Meaning
An urgent situation, one requiring extreme effort or attention.
More Meanings
- (chiefly in the plural) The demands or requirements of a situation.
Example Sentences
[...] but these details I am compelled by exigencies of space to hold over until next month.
My business is with you, and you only. You should not have undertaken your office, unless prepared for its various exigencies.
No ordinary man could have escaped those frightful claws when Numa sprang from so short a distance, but Tarzan was no ordinary man. From earliest childhood his muscles had been trained by the fierce exigencies of his existence to act with the rapidity of thought.
Word Forms
- exigencies
Synonyms for exigency
Depending on context, synonyms include necessity, urgency, pinch, emergency.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include emergency, pinch, urgent, urgency, pressing, urgently.
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