Noun: insistence in'sis-tun(t)s
- The act of insisting on something
"insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position";
- insistency
- Continual and persistent demands
"His insistence on perfection made him difficult to work with";
- insisting
- The state of demanding notice or attention
"the insistence of their hunger";
- imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure
Derived forms: insistences
Type of: advocacy, demand, protagonism, urgency
Encyclopedia: Insistence