INSISTENCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does insistence mean?
• INSISTENCE (noun)
The noun INSISTENCE has 3 senses:
1. continual and persistent demands
2. the state of demanding notice or attention
3. the act of insisting on something
Familiarity information: INSISTENCE used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• INSISTENCE (noun)
Meaning:
Continual and persistent demands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
insistence; insisting
Hypernyms ("insistence" is a kind of...):
demand (an urgent or peremptory request)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insistence"):
purism (scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language))
Meaning:
The state of demanding notice or attention
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
imperativeness; insistency; insistence; press; pressure
Context examples:
the insistence of their hunger / the press of business matters
Hypernyms ("insistence" is a kind of...):
urgency (the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity)
Meaning:
The act of insisting on something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
insistency; insistence
Context example:
insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position
Hypernyms ("insistence" is a kind of...):
advocacy; protagonism (active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something)
