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