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IMPERATIVENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does imperativeness mean?

• IMPERATIVENESS (noun)
The noun IMPERATIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. the state of demanding notice or attention
2. urgently demanding attention

Familiarity information: IMPERATIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• IMPERATIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The state of demanding notice or attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

imperativeness; insistency; insistence; press; pressure

Context examples:

the insistence of their hunger / the press of business matters

Hypernyms ("imperativeness" is a kind of...):

urgency (the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Urgently demanding attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

imperativeness; instancy

Context example:

he pressed his demand with considerable instancy

Hypernyms ("imperativeness" is a kind of...):

urgency (pressing importance requiring speedy action)

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