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Insistent vs Insistency - What's the difference?

insistent | insistency |

As an adjective insistent

is standing or resting on something.

As a noun insistency is

the quality of being insistent.

insistent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
  • Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
  • Extorting]] attention or notice; coercively [[stare, staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
  • (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.

    • Derived terms

    * insistently

    Related terms

    * insist * insistence

    References

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    insistency

    English

    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. }}