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- pronunciation:
- ek
s
jihn
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
exigencies |
| definition 1: |
a condition of urgency.
He was slow to act, not realizing the exigency of the situation.- similar words:
- pressure, urgency
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| definition 2: |
a situation demanding urgent or immediate attention; emergency.
The doctor would have been called in if there had been any exigency.- similar words:
- emergency, urgency
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| definition 3: |
(usu. pl.) the pressing demands or needs intrinsic to a given situation.
They were not really prepared for the exigencies of taking care of small children.- similar words:
- need, requirement, want
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| related words: |
crisis, necessary, push |
adjective + (n.)exigency
american,
appropriate,
capitalist,
cold,
colonial,
commercial,
contemporary,
cultural,
current,
daily,
different,
domestic,
economic,
electoral,
environmental,
external,
extreme,
financial,
future,
geographic,
global,
great,
historical,
human,
international,
local,
military,
modern,
national,
new,
other,
particular,
political,
practical,
public,
real,
situational,
social,
strategic,
structural
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verb + (n.)exigency
accommodate,
adapt,
address,
arise,
base,
confront,
cope,
couple,
determine,
dictate,
drive,
face,
fit,
force,
give,
live,
manage,
may,
meet,
might,
override,
prompt,
reflect,
reinforce,
require,
respond,
shape,
stem,
surrender,
transform
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noun + (n.)exigency
agency,
bargaining,
battlefield,
case,
century,
change,
circumstance,
coalition,
collective,
college,
conflict,
congress,
constituency,
constraint,
culture,
development,
economy,
end,
epidemic,
experience,
face,
fight,
force,
geography,
ground,
hand,
history,
home,
household,
housekeeping,
imperialism,
individual,
issue,
labor,
law,
life,
market,
material,
matrix,
mind,
moment,
music,
nature,
necessity,
opportunity,
order,
party,
period,
plot,
policy,
politics,
practice,
present,
profession,
question,
response,
result,
revolution,
role,
rule,
sense,
shop,
situation,
story,
student,
system,
time,
tradition,
understanding,
war,
wartime,
window,
work,
world
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| derivation: |
exigence (n.) |
The word exigency
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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