Insistency

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being insistent. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the act of insisting on something wordnet
  3. 3
    the state of demanding notice or attention wordnet

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applicationassiduityconcentrationconstancydiligenceendurance

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"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."

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