Urgency

Full definition of urgency

Noun

1. The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
• 2011, September 24, David Ornstein, Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton, Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.