the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; insistence.
n. the quality of not being ignorable.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Same as insistence.
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n. the state of demanding notice or attention
n. the act of insisting on something
Word Usage
"He also remarked, more significantly from an aesthetic point of view, “A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”"