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exigence
[ek-si-juhn-see, ig-zij-uhn-] 
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exigence
[ek-si-juhn-see, ig-zij-uhn-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand |
| Synonyms: | demands, exigencies, exigency, necessity, need, needs, requirement, requirements, want |
| Main Entry: | exigency/exigence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty; demand |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, criticalness, crossroad, demandingness, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, imperativeness, jam, juncture, necessity, need, needfulness, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pressingness, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape*, stress, turning point*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour |
| Antonyms: | ease, easiness, ordinariness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exigency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, criticalness, crossroad, demand, demandingness, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, exigence, extremity, fix, hardship, imperativeness, jam, juncture, necessity, need, needfulness, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pressingness, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape, stress, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour |
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