Exigency

Noun

 * 1) The demands or requirements of a situation (usually plural.)
 * 2) An urgent situation.
 * 3) A situation requiring extreme effort or attention.

Adjectives for Exigency
unexpected; various (pi); present.

Verbs for Exigency
adapt to—; contribute to—; create—; ease—; escape—; judge—; labor under—; meet—; relieve—; rise to—; satisfy—; stress—; subject to—; tolerate—; —claims; —demands; —necessitates; —pinches; —presses ; —requires ; —threatens.

Synonyms for Exigency
exigence, necessity, urgency, emergency, crisis, difficulty, distress, demand, need, want, strait.

Antonyms for Exigency
normality, ordinariness, regularity.

Related terms

 * exigent
 * exiguity
 * exiguous

Thesaurus
case of need, climacteric, clutch, compulsion, constraint, contingency, convergence of events, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crunch, demandingness, dire necessity, drive, emergency, exigence, extremity, high pressure, hinge, immediacy, imperative, imperativeness, importunacy, importunateness, importunity, impulse, impulsion, insistence, matter of necessity, pass, persistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pinch, predicament, press, pressingness, pressure, push, rash impulse, rub, strait, stress, tension, turn, turning, turning point, urge, urgency, urgent need

Etymology
From the Middle French exigence from Late Latin exigentia "urgency" from Latin exigere "to demand"