"urgency" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɜː.d͡ʒən.si/ [General-Australian, UK], /ˈɝ.d͡ʒən.si/ [Canada, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-urgency.wav [Southern-England] Forms: urgencies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənsi Etymology: Probably from urgent + -cy. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|urgent|cy}} urgent + -cy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} urgency (countable and uncountable, plural urgencies)
  1. The quality or condition of being urgent. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality or condition of being urgent): спешност (spešnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), urgència [feminine] (Catalan), 緊迫 (Chinese Mandarin), 紧迫 (jǐnpò) (Chinese Mandarin), naléhavost [feminine] (Czech), urĝeco (Esperanto), kiireellisyys (Finnish), urgence [feminine] (French), urxencia [feminine] (Galician), Dringlichkeit [feminine] (German), επείγον (epeígon) [neuter] (Greek), urjanteso (Ido), urjo (Ido), kêgêntingan (Indonesian), urgenza [feminine] (Italian), urgenze [feminine, plural] (Italian), urjensia [feminine] (Ladino), exigentia [feminine] (Latin), и́тност (ítnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), اورژانس (Persian), urgência (Portuguese), urgență [feminine] (Romanian), сро́чность (sróčnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), urgencia [feminine] (Spanish), premura (Spanish), apremio [masculine] (Spanish), perentoriedad [feminine] (Spanish), తొందర (tondara) (Telugu), aciliyet (Turkish), ivedilik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-urgency-en-noun-hSiByysD Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -cy Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cy: 39 13 48 Disambiguation of 'quality or condition of being urgent': 95 2 3
  2. Insistence, pressure, urge. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-urgency-en-noun-dskPj7FP Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -cy Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cy: 39 13 48
  3. (medicine) A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-urgency-en-noun-urbHgfzj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -cy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 8 67 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cy: 39 13 48 Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: exigency, clamancy

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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "word": "urgência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "urgență"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sróčnostʹ",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сро́чность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "urgencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "word": "premura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "apremio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perentoriedad"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "tondara",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "word": "తొందర"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "word": "aciliyet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality or condition of being urgent",
      "word": "ivedilik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "urgency"
}

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