INSISTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insisting mean? 

• INSISTING (noun)
  The noun INSISTING has 1 sense:

1. continual and persistent demands

  Familiarity information: INSISTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSISTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continual and persistent demands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

insistence; insisting

Hypernyms ("insisting" is a kind of...):

demand (an urgent or peremptory request)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insisting"):

purism (scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language))

Derivation:

insist (beg persistently and urgently)

 Context examples 

She said little, but she saddened my life by insisting that I should be for ever clean and tidy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nobody doubts her right to have precedence of mamma, but it would be more becoming in her not to be always insisting on it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

(for example, insisting that people are trying to harm him/her or steal from him/her)?

(NPI - Have Beliefs That You Know are Not True, NCI Thesaurus)

It was in vain I looked about me; in vain I saw the decent furniture and tall proportions of my room in the square; in vain that I recognised the pattern of the bed curtains and the design of the mahogany frame; something still kept insisting that I was not where I was, that I had not wakened where I seemed to be, but in the little room in Soho where I was accustomed to sleep in the body of Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This sort of nose is usually a short and coarse one, but there is a sufficient number of exceptions to prevent me from being dogmatic or from insisting upon this point in my description.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)