-
nouncontinual and persistent demands
Similar:
type of: -
"insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position"nounthe act of insisting on something
Similar:
type of: -
"the insistence of their hunger"nounthe state of demanding notice or attention
Similar:
type of:
Definition that contains insistence
- bureaucracy any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
- firth English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
- john rupert firth English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
- purism scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)
- j. r. firth English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)