Persistent vs. Nagging — What's the Difference?

Refusing to give up or let go; persevering obstinately.

Nagging, in interpersonal communication, is repetitious behaviour in the form of pestering, hectoring, harassing, or otherwise continuously urging an individual to complete previously discussed requests or act on advice. The word is derived from the Scandinavian nagga, which means "to gnaw".Reporter Elizabeth Bernstein defined, in a Wall Street Journal article, nagging as "the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both become increasingly annoyed".

Insistently repetitive or continuous

To annoy by constant scolding, complaining, or urging.

Existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time; enduring

To torment persistently, as with anxiety or pain.

(Botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off, as the calyx on an eggplant or the scales of a pine cone.

To scold, complain, or find fault constantly

(Zoology) Retained permanently, rather than disappearing in an early stage of development

To be a constant source of anxiety or annoyance

Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

One who nags.

Insistently repetitive.

Present participle of nag

Indefinitely continuous.

The action of the verb nag.

(botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.

Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.

(computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.

Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache.

(mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function

Continually complaining or faultfinding;

Non-transient.

Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; - opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

Never-ceasing;

Continually recurring to the mind;

Retained; not shed;