Persistence vs Insistence - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between persistence and insistence

is that persistence is the property of being persistent while insistence is the state of being insistent.

(en noun)

The property of being persistent.

You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.

(computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.

Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

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the state of being insistent

an urgent demand

(fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength

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