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CRITICALNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does criticalness mean?
• CRITICALNESS (noun)
The noun CRITICALNESS has 1 sense:
1. a state of critical urgency
Familiarity information: CRITICALNESS 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 ("criticalness" is a kind of...):
urgency (the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity)
Derivation:
critical (being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency)
critical (forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis)
critical (urgently needed; absolutely necessary)
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