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urgency

noun
/ˈɜː.d͡ʒən.si/UK/ˈɝ.d͡ʒən.si/CA

Etymology

From urgent + -ency or Latin urgentia.

  1. borrowed from urgentia

Definitions

  1. The quality or condition of being urgent.

    • the urgency of a demand
    • Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.

  2. Insistence, pressure, urge.

    • I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.

  3. A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with…

    A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at urgency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at urgency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at urgency

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA