Noun

The quality of being insistent.

*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 31, author=Nate Chinen, title=Clear-Cut Case of the Blues, in a Bebop Mode, work=New York Times citation

, passage=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. }}