Definition of "imperativeness" [imperativeness]

• The state or condition of being imperative. (noun)

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• "The man's voice leaped to a higher pitch and was sharp with imperativeness."
• "Both had been troubled and roused, and they were drawing together with the sharpness and imperativeness of uniting elements."
• "In it was all the imperativeness of reproof and command and all the solicitous insistence of love."