impatience

[im·pa·tience]

Impatience is the tendency to be irritable or easily frustrated. A bus driver's impatience often results in her yelling, honking her horn, and gesturing angrily at other drivers.

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The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.

Noun
a dislike of anything that causes delay

Noun
a restless desire for change and excitement

Noun
a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay


n.
The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.


Impatience

Im*pa"tience n. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.] The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.
I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly.
With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt.

Impatiency

Im*pa"tien*cy , n. Impatience. [Obs.]

The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.

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Usage Examples

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

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Other Usage Examples

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

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