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Urgency vs Exigent - What's the difference?

urgency | exigent |

As nouns the difference between urgency and exigent

is that urgency is the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion while exigent is (archaic) extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.

As an adjective exigent is

urgent; needing immediate action.

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.}}

    exigent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Urgent; needing immediate action.
  • * 2003 , , U.S. Department of Defence
    • Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
  • Demanding; needing great effort.

    • Related terms

    * exigence * exigency * exigently

    Derived terms

    * allocatur exigent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
  • * 1591 ,
    • These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, \ Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent ;
  • * 1611 ,
    • Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, [Cicero 5° de finibus.] there was one or other that called for an interpreter: so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent , it is necessary to have translations in a readiness.
  • (obsolete, UK, legal) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
    • (Abbott)