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exigences

NOUN

difficulty; demand

Synonyms

WEAK

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

WEAK

ease easiness ordinariness

NOUN

demand

Synonyms

WEAK

demands exigencies exigency necessity need needs requirement requirements want

NOUN

crisis

Synonyms

WEAK

circumstance climacteric crossroad difficulty dilemma emergency exigency fix hardship head juncture pickle pinch predicament quandary turning point urgency zero hour

Example Sentences

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These exigences led to strenuous scenes in the Assembly, and the succession of Regents became still more rapid.

From South America by Koebel, W. H. (William Henry)

Owing to exigences of space reference to several important new books has necessarily been postponed.

From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by White, Gleeson

Only the exigences of labor can excuse verbal intercourse.

From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell

Malagise deals in magic, and has a swarm of demons at his back for all exigences.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

This may be fully allowed, yet it does not meet the exigences of the case.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry