exigent state or character; urgency.

Usually, exigencies. the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition, etc.

the exigencies of city life.

a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency

He promised help in any exigency.

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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 , hot water , trouble , climacteric , head , difficulty