insistence
/ɪnˈsɪs·təns/ n [U]Definition
› the act of stating or demanding something forcefully: At his insistence, I continued living with my mother. Her insistence that he bring her took him by surprise.
(Definition of insistence n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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