imperativeness

im·per·a·tive  (m-pr-tv)

adj.

1. Expressing a command or plea; peremptory: requests that grew more and more imperative.

2. Having the power or authority to command or control.

3. Grammar Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.

4. Impossible to deter or evade; pressing: imperative needs. See Synonyms at urgent.

n.

1.

a. A command; an order.

b. An obligation; a duty: social imperatives.

2. A rule, principle, or instinct that compels a certain behavior: a people driven to aggression by territorial imperatives.

3. Grammar

a. The imperative mood.

b. A verb form of the imperative mood.

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[Middle English imperatif, relating to the imperative mood, from Old French, from Late Latin impertvus, from Latin impertus, past participle of imperre, to command; see emperor.]

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im·pera·tive·ly adv.

im·pera·tive·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	imperativeness - the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters" insistency, press, insistence, pressure urgency - the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
	2.	imperativeness - the quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy" instancy urgency - pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need"