insistence

/ɪnˈsɪstəns/

/ɪnˈsɪstɪns/

Other forms: insistences

Insistence is when someone persists in forcefully asking for or requiring something. A parent's insistence might be the only reason an unmotivated teenager sits down and does his homework.

A store manager's insistence on selling things for the lowest prices might be the thing that keeps customers coming back, and your insistence on reading your speech first in class might get you to the front of the line. When you insist on something, you demand it — both words come from the Latin insistere, "persist, dwell upon, or stand upon," from in-, "upon," and sistere, "take a stand."

Definitions of insistence

1. noun

   the act of insisting on something
   “insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position”

   synonyms: insistency

   type of:

   advocacy, protagonism

   active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
2. noun

   the state of demanding notice or attention
   “the insistence of their hunger”

   synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure

   type of:

   urgency

   the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
3. noun

   continual and persistent demands
   synonyms: insisting

   types:

   purism

   scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)

   type of:

   demand

   an urgent or peremptory request