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insistency
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun insistency has 2 senses
- insistency(n = noun.state) imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure - the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters" is a kind of urgency
- insistency(n = noun.act) insistence - the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position" is a kind of advocacy, protagonism
Derived form adjective insistent2
CIDE DICTIONARY
insistency, n.
- the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; insistence. [WordNet 1.5]
- the quality of not being ignorable. [WordNet 1.5]
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