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Definition: Exigency |
ExigencyNoun1. A pressing or urgent situation: "the health-care exigency". 2. A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "exigency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Etymology: Exigency \Ex"i*gen*cy\, noun; plural Exigencies. [from Late Latin expression exigentia: compare to the French expression exigence.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ExigencySynonyms: emergency (n), pinch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumstance | Predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push; occurrence; turning point. |
Desire | Noun: desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency. |
Difficulty | Nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble. |
Insufficiency | Scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought. |
Requirement | Noun: requirement, need, wants, necessities; necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency,pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Exigency |
| English words defined with "exigency": Clubhaul ♦ Exigence, Exigencies. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Should the exigency arise rendering the execution of the existing laws impracticable from any cause what ever, prompt notice of it will be given to Congress, with a suggestion of such views and measures as may be deemed necessary to meet it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Exigency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Exigency" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
exigency financial | 3 |
exigency | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "exigency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | urgjencë (emergency, urgency), nevojë (call, demand, maun, necessity, need, pinch, requirement, straits, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضرورة (call, emergency, necessity, requirement, use). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крайна необходимост, неотложна нужда (urgency), наложителност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | naléhavý případ (emergency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیشامد (Accident, Circumstance, Event, Occurrence), لزوم (Incumbency, Necessity, Need, Supply), ضرورت (Cogency, Necessity, Urgency), ایجاب (Requirement), اضطرار (Coercion, Compulsion, Constraint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | exigence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zwangslage (dilemma, plight, predicament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρίσιμη κατάσταση (emergency), επείγουσα ανάγκη (emergency, urgency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "וחק (density, duress, importunate, penury, pressure, squash, stress), צורך "כרחי (a must). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szorultság (discomfort, distress, exigence, extremity, fix), szükség (exigence, necessity, need, poverty, want), kényszerhelyzet (dilemma, emergency, exigence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keadaan darurat (emergency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | esigenza (assert a claim, claim, demand, need, requirement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | tvingende nødvendighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | exigencyay exigência (demand, exaction, particularity, requirement), emergência (need). (various references) exigenţã (exactingness, exigence, requirement). (various references) крайность (emergency, exigence, extreme, extremeness, extremity), острая необходимость (exigence). (various references) potreba (call, need, requisite, want), hitnost (instancy, urgency). (various references) exigencia (demand, exigence, requirement). (various references) nödläge (distress, emergency, exigence, extremity). (various references) ความจำเป็นเร่ง"่วน (คำทางการ) (exigence). (various references) zorunluluk (burden, essentiality, exigence, imperative, incumbency, indispensability, necessity, obligation, ought, urgency), mecburiyet (compulsion, exigence, indispensability, obligation), ihtiyaç (call, demand, deprivation, desideratum, exigence, necessity, need, pinch, privation, requirement, want), gereklilik (exigence, materiality, must, necessity, pinch, requirement), gerek (exigence, necessity, need, pinch, requirement, requisition), acil durum (emergency, exigence). (various references) скрутне становище (fix, involvement, nonplus, predicament, quagmire, quandary), гостра потреба (urgency). (various references) tình trạng khẩn cấp (exigence), nhu cầu cấp bách sự khẩn cấp (exigence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | necessitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Exigency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ewigen, exegency, exgency, exigence, exigenicy, exigincy, exigrency, exigrncy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exigency" (pronounced e'ksi"junsē) |
| 5 | -j u n s ē | agency, cogency, contingency, counterinsurgency, emergency, insurgency, interagency, nonemergency, regency, stringency, urgency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, equivalency, excellency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-x-y" | |
-2 letters: eyeing. | |
-3 letters: exine, eying, genic, genie, niece, xenic, yince. | |
-4 letters: cine, exec, eyen, eyne, gene, gien, nice, nixe, nixy. | |
-5 letters: cee, cig, eng, eye, gee, gen, gey, gie, gin, ice, icy, nee, nix, yen, yin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-x-y" | |
+3 letters: exceedingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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