insistence
Meaning of insistence
- the fact or quality of insisting that something is the case or should be done.
Alison's insistence on doing the washing-up straight after the meal
Information about insistence
- It is a name.
- The plural form of insistence is: insistences.
- Languages in which insistence is used:
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Hyphenation of insistence
in-sis-tence
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- insistence is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
insistence synonyms
Meaning insisting:
Meaning imperativeness:
imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure
Meaning insistency:
Meaning an insistent and peremptory request, made as of right:
Meaning the offering of particular prices for something, especially at an auction:
Meaning an authoritative order:
Meaning an order or principle that must be obeyed:
Meaning a direction or order:
Meaning a thing that is needed or wanted:
Meaning an act of asking politely or formally for something:
Meaning an earnest or humble request:
Meaning the action of urging someone to do something:
Meaning an address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something:
Meaning persistent harassment of someone for or to do something:
Meaning a person's orders or command:
Meaning archaic form of behest:
Meaning a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief:
Meaning a formal or explicit statement or announcement:
Meaning heated disagreement:
Meaning a definite or clear expression of something in speech or writing:
Meaning an assertion that something is true:
Meaning a public or official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance:
Meaning a formal public statement about a fact, occurrence, or intention:
Meaning a formal or authoritative announcement or declaration:
Meaning a positive declaration intended to give confidence; a promise:
Meaning evidence or proof of something:
Meaning the action or process of affirming something:
Meaning an affirmation or allegation:
Meaning a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification:
Meaning the use of offensive language:
Meaning special importance, value, or prominence given to something:
Meaning particular emphasis or importance:
Meaning the process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved:
Meaning the solemn or emphatic declaration or statement of something:
Translation of insistence
- German: Ausdauer
- French: persévérance
- Italian: perseveranza
- Spanish: perseverancia, insistencia
Words that rhyme with insistence
faence, Bence, decumbence, incumbence, recumbence, resorbence, succumbence, superincumbence, Autofluorescence, Cence, Renascence, acaulescence, accrescence, acescence, acquiescence, adherescence, adjacence, adnascence, adolescence, adularescence, albescence, alkalescence, arborescence, ascence, autofluorescence, autoluminescence, beneficence, bioluminescence, calescence, calorescence, candescence, canescence, cathodofluorescence, cathodoluminescence, chemicoluminescence, chemiluminescence, chemoluminescence, circumcrescence, circumjacence, coadjacence, coalescence, colliquescence, complacence, concaulescence, concrescence, concupiscence, connascence, consenescence, contabescence, convalescence