Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun insistency

2 senses of insistency

Sense 1
imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press, pressure -- (the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters")
       => urgency -- (the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity)

Sense 2
insistence, insistency -- (the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position")
       => advocacy, protagonism -- (active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something)