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Noun: insistence  in'sis-tun(t)s
  1. Continual and persistent demands
    - insisting
     
  2. The state of demanding notice or attention
    "the insistence of their hunger";
    - imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure
     
  3. The act of insisting on something
    "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position";
    - insistency

Derived forms: insistences

Type of: advocacy, demand, protagonism, urgency

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