INSISTENCY
Dictionary entry overview: What does insistency mean?
• INSISTENCY (noun)
The noun INSISTENCY has 2 senses:
1. the state of demanding notice or attention
2. the act of insisting on something
Familiarity information: INSISTENCY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INSISTENCY (noun)
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 ("insistency" 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 ("insistency" is a kind of...):
advocacy; protagonism (active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something)
"Never, Never... allow anyone to persuade you to suspend your common sense." (English proverb)
"Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something." (Native American proverb, Maricopa)
"Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper." (Arabic proverb)
"He who seeks, finds." (Corsican proverb)
