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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental pressure |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, alarm, albatross, anxiety, apprehensiveness, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervous tension, nervousness, oppression, overextension, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry |
| Antonyms: | indifference, relaxation |
| Main Entry: | zeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion, diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise, fanaticism, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, hustle, inclination, initiative, intensity, intentness, keenness, mania, passion, perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, stick-to-itiveness, urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, what-it-takes, yen, zest |
| Notes: | zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment or added interest |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, lethargy |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | matter of life and death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | urgent matter |
| Synonyms: | case of emergency, case of need, emergency, exigency, grave affair, matter of necessity, necessitude, urgency, vitalness |
| Main Entry: | requirement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity |
| Synonyms: | claim, compulsion, concern, condition, demand, desideratum, element, engrossment, essential, exaction, exigency, extremity, fulfillment, fundamental, imperative, lack, must, need, obligation, obsession, pinch, precondition, preliminary, preoccupation, prepossession, prerequisite, prescription, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, specification, stipulation, stress, terms, urgency, vital part, want |
| Main Entry: | exigence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis |
| Synonyms: | circumstance, climacteric, crossroad, difficulty, dilemma, emergency, exigency, fix, hardship, head, juncture, pickle, pinch, predicament, quandary, turning point, urgency, zero hour |
| Main Entry: | graveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gravity |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, concern, consequence, exigency, hazardousness, momentousness, perilousness, sedateness, seriousness, severity, significance, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness, urgency, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | momentousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gravity |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, concern, consequence, exigency, graveness, hazardousness, perilousness, seriousness, severity, significance, solemnity, urgency, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | precipitance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | haste |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, briskness, bustle, carelessness, celerity, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, flurry, foolhardiness, hastiness, heedlessness, hurly-burly, hurriedness, hustle, hustling, impatience, impetuosity, incautiousness, nimbleness, pace, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, prematureness, press, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, swiftness, urgency, velocity |
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