imperativeness
Quality demanding action
Imperativeness is the quality of being urgent, commanding, or absolutely necessary.
A situation has imperativeness when it demands immediate action: The imperativeness of the deadline left no room for delay.
The word can also describe a commanding tone or manner—the imperativeness of someone's voice that brooks no argument.
Quality of being necessary
- indispensabilityBeing absolutely necessary
- requirementMandatory condition to fulfill
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
criticality · prerequisite · needfulness · precondition · sine qua non · vitality · paramountcy · inescapability
Requiring immediate attention
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- immediateHappening without delay
- time-sensitiveRequiring prompt action
- emergencySerious sudden danger
crisis · expedience · desperate · acute · compelling · exigent · insistent · demanding
Formal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- edictAuthoritative public command
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
injunction · dictate · fiat · pronouncement · proclamation · ultimatum · instruction · behest
essentiality
Quality of being necessary
- indispensabilityBeing absolutely necessary
- requirementMandatory condition to fulfill
- obligationRequired task or commitment
compulsion · criticality · prerequisite · needfulness · precondition · sine qua non · vitality · paramountcy · inescapability · non-negotiable
pressing
Requiring immediate attention
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- immediateHappening without delay
- time-sensitiveRequiring prompt action
emergency · crisis · expedience · desperate · acute · compelling · exigent · insistent · demanding · clamorous
directive
Formal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- edictAuthoritative public command
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
decree · injunction · dictate · fiat · pronouncement · proclamation · ultimatum · instruction · behest · charge
imperativenessunimportance
Lack of consequence
dispensability · triviality · negligibility · insignificance · expendability
imperativenessoptionality
Value of having choices
voluntariness · permissiveness · flexibility · choice · leniency
empire, emperor, imperial, imperious, imperative, imperatives, imperatively