Usually means: Firm demand or assertion; persistence.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. insistence: Merriam-Webster
  2. insistence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insistence: Collins English Dictionary
  4. insistence: Vocabulary.com
  5. Insistence, insistence: Wordnik
  6. insistence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. insistence: Wiktionary
  8. insistence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. insistence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. insistence: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Insistence, insistence: Dictionary.com
  12. insistence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Insistence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. insistence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. insistence: Rhymezone
  16. Insistence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. insistence: FreeDictionary.org
  18. insistence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. insistence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. insistence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insistence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insistence: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (insistence)

▸ noun:  The state of being insistent.
▸ noun:  An urgent demand.
▸ noun:  (fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.

Similar:
instancy, imperativeness, insistency, pressure, press, insisting, insistance, uninsistence, obstinacy, impersistence, more...

Opposite:
flexibility, indifference, compliance, acquiescence, passivity

Types:
demand, requirement, prerequisite, necessity, obligation, more...

Phrases:
insistence on, more...

Adjectives:
own, stubborn, american, much, continued, greater, strong, rigid, constant, british, very

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Similar:
instancy, imperativeness, insistency, pressure, press, insisting, insistance, uninsistence, obstinacy, impersistence, more...

Opposite:
flexibility, indifference, compliance, acquiescence, passivity

Types:
demand, requirement, prerequisite, necessity, obligation, more...

Phrases:
insistence on, more...

Adjectives:
own, stubborn, american, much, continued, greater, strong, rigid, constant, british, very

Colors:
    red,     crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     burgundy, more...



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