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INSISTING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continual and persistent demands

Synonyms:

insistence; insisting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("insisting" is a kind of...):

demand (an urgent or peremptory request)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insisting"):

purism (scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language))

Derivation:

insist (beg persistently and urgently)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb insist

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