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Crucial vs Urgency - What's the difference?

crucial | urgency |

As an adjective crucial

is being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.

As a noun urgency is

the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

crucial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-07, author= Nicole Vulser
    • , volume=190, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies , passage=The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial , but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.}}
  • (label) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
  • Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.

    • Derived terms

    * crucial experiment

    Related terms

    * cross * crux

    References

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    urgency

    English

    Noun

    (urgencies)
  • The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.}}