IMPERATIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperativeness mean? 

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

1. the state of demanding notice or attention

2. the quality of being insistent

  Familiarity information: IMPERATIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERATIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of demanding notice or attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

imperativeness; insistence; insistency; press; pressure

Context example:

the press of business matters

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

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

Derivation:

imperative (requiring attention or action)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being insistent

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)