exigency Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a pressing or urgent situation
    • the health-care exigency
  2. noun a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
    pinch; emergency.
    • he never knew what to do in an emergency

WordNet

Ex"i*gen*cy noun
Etymology
LL. exigentia: cf. F. exigence.
Wordforms
plural Exigencies
Definitions
  1. The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The present exigency of his affairs." Ludlow. Syn. -- Demand; urgency; distress; pressure; emergency; necessity; crisis.

Webster 1913