Crossword clues for insistency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
insistency \insistency\ n. the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; insistence.
Syn: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure.
2. the quality of not being ignorable.
Syn: imperativeness, insistence.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being insistent.
WordNet
n. the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters" [syn: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure]
urgently demanding attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy" [syn: imperativeness, insistence, instancy]
Usage examples of "insistency".
For the first time Thag knew rebellion in his very clutches, and the ecstasy of that music which had dinned in Smith's ears so strongly that by now it seemed almost silence was swooping down a long are into wrath, and the branches tightened with hot insistency, lifting the rebellious offering into Thag's monstrous, indescribable bulk.
An enormous arcade of pinball wizards they passed up after staring for long moments like the most ignorant of country bumpkins and, farther along, the electronicized insistency of American rock V roll, a quicksilver pulse projecting from a music store's loudspeaker.