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  1. The state or quality of being insistent: insistency, perseverance, persistence, persistency. See continue/stop/pause.
  2. Urgent solicitation: insistency, pressing. Archaic instance. See continue/stop/pause, seek/avoid.

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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: continual and persistent demands
  Synonym: insisting

Meaning #2: the state of urgently demanding notice or attention
  Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure

Meaning #3: urgently demanding attention
  Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, instancy

Misspellings: insistence
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