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1. Continual and persistent demands
   - insisting
    
2. The state of demanding notice or attention
   "the insistence of their hunger"
   - imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure
    
3. The act of insisting on something
   "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position"
   - insistency

Derived forms: insistences

See also: insist, insistent

Type of: advocacy, demand, protagonism, urgency