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Urge vs Urgency - What's the difference?

urge | urgency |

As nouns the difference between urge and urgency

is that urge is a strong desire; an itch to do something while urgency is the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

As a verb urge

is to press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

urge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strong desire; an itch to do something.

    • Verb

    (urg)
  • To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
  • To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
  • To provoke; to exasperate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Urge not my father's anger.
  • To press hard upon; to follow closely.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
  • To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
    • to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
  • (obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
    • to urge an ore with intense heat
  • To press onward or forward.
  • To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

    • Synonyms

    * animate * incite * impel * instigate * stimulate * encourage

    Related terms

    * urgent

    See also

    * surge

    Anagrams

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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.}}