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insistency

insistency noun: the quality of being insistent.

Noun

insistency (countable and uncountable, plural insistencies)

  1. The quality of being insistent.
    • His son, Denardo Coleman, played drums with hard insistency, even bombast (at bright tempos, his ride-cymbal patterns were rivetlike), but he also kept closely attuned to the flow of improvisation.2008 March 31, Nate Chinen, “Clear-Cut Case of the Blues, in a Bebop Mode”, in New York Times

Forms of insistency

pluralinsistencies

Questions about insistency

What does insistency mean?
Insistency means the quality of being insistent.
What part of speech is insistency?
Insistency is a noun.
What is the plural of insistency?
The plural of insistency is insistencies.

Words near insistency in the dictionary

  1. insisted
  2. insistedst
  3. insistence
  4. insistences
  5. insistencies
  6. insistency
  7. insistent
  8. insistently
  9. insister
  10. insisters
  11. insistest

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