insistence

Noun

Meaning

The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pressure insistency press claim demand request persistence perseverance urging urgency tenacity doggedness insisting imperativeness will
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Antonyms

independence flexibility rejection fault refusal deficiency
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Hypernyms

demand advocacy urgency protagonism

Hyponyms

purism

Related terms

insist

Examples

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. Franz Boas

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne W. Dyer

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since. Stephen Fry

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude. Ralph Barton Perry

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. Ben Kingsley

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. Elihu Root

Close letter words and terms

insist insist implies some alleged right insist on insistency insistent insistent about