Panic and Urgency

noun

• An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
  • synonyms: terror, affright
• Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
  • usage: "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
  • synonyms: scare

verb

• Be overcome by a sudden fear.
  • usage: "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
• Cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic.
  • usage: "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"

• (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
• (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; especially, a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
• (a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
• (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.

noun

• The state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.
• Pressing importance requiring speedy action.
  • usage: "the urgency of his need"
• An urgent situation calling for prompt action.
  • usage: "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"
• Insistent solicitation and entreaty.
  • usage: "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree"
  • synonyms: importunity, urging

(n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.