insistency
- noun
- /ɪnˈsɪstənsɪ/
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insistencia
- The lavenders rise, and that note, which I ultimately hate (I never got phoenixes rising from the volcanic ashes or any of that, just a nitrile insistency), is relegated to the background.
Examples
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Her insistency in expressing her opinion during the meeting impressed everyone.
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Their faces were sullen, and a demanding insistency lurked in the politeness of their manner.
Fiction book (1993) -
On the other hand, a "mandated obligation to die" emerges with greatest force "only in an individualist moral universe" in which persons have been stripped of ties of great robustness and insistency to particular others.
Academic text (1991) -
The insistency of the child's request for a new toy made her mother give in.
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With great insistency, he continued to advocate for the change he believed was necessary.
Synonyms
57
3.5
Asking or saying something firmly and not giving up
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4.1
Continuing to try despite problems or opposition
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4.2
A strong, repeated request that makes people act
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5.8
A strong need or pressure that requires quick attention
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7.5
A quality of not stopping, often showing harsh or strong action
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6.1
Trying too hard to make people do something and annoying them
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8.8
A strong need for attention right now
A strong repeated request that does not stop
Repeatedly asking for something in a way that annoys people
A tendency to expect a lot from people or to need a lot of effort
Antonyms
How Persistent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Insistency comes from the verb insist, made of in- ('on') and sist ('stand'), giving the picture of someone who 'stands on' a point and will not let it go. So, insistency is the quality of being firm and persistent when you ask or demand something.