Priority vs Exigent - What's the difference?
priority | exigent |
An item's relative importance.
A goal of a person or an organisation.
(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
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(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
* 1608 , , I. i. 244:
Urgent; needing immediate action.
* 2003 , , U.S. Department of Defence
Demanding; needing great effort.
(archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
* 1591 ,
* 1611 ,
(obsolete, UK, legal) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
As nouns the difference between priority and exigent
is that priority is an item's relative importance while exigent is (archaic) extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.As an adjective exigent is
urgent; needing immediate action.priority
English
(wikipedia priority)Noun
(priorities)- He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
- She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
- Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
Derived terms
* aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priorityexigent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Derived terms
* allocatur exigentNoun
(en noun)- These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, \ Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent ;
- 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.
- (Abbott)