insistency

Other forms of insistency

plural

insistencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about insistency

What does insistency mean?

insistency means "the state of demanding notice or attention". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in insistency?

insistency has 4 syllables: in-si-sten-cy. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for insistency?

Close synonyms include imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure, insistence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is insistency a common word?

insistency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.