| English Dictionary |
CRUCIALITY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does cruciality mean?
• CRUCIALITY (noun)
The noun CRUCIALITY has 1 sense:
1. a state of critical urgency
Familiarity information: CRUCIALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of critical urgency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
criticality; criticalness; cruciality
Hypernyms ("cruciality" is a kind of...):
urgency (the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity)
Derivation:
crucial (of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis)
crucial (of the greatest importance)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Everything comes to him who waits." (English proverb)
"With a spade of gold and a hoe of silver even the mountains rock and sway." (Albanian proverb)
"Stinginess demeans the value of man." (Arabic proverb)
"He who protects himself from cold also wards off heat." (Corsican proverb)
"With a spade of gold and a hoe of silver even the mountains rock and sway." (Albanian proverb)
"Stinginess demeans the value of man." (Arabic proverb)
"He who protects himself from cold also wards off heat." (Corsican proverb)