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Impatience

Impatience Meaning & Definition
Impatience Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Impatience?

[n] a dislike of anything that causes delay
[n] a restless desire for change and excitement
[n] a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay

Synonyms | Synonyms for Impatience: restlessness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Impatience: alacrity | animation | anxiety | anxiousness | appetite | avidity | avidness | breathless impatience | cheerful readiness | eagerness | elan | forwardness | gust | gusto | haste | hastiness | impetuosity | impetuousness | impulsiveness | keen desire | keenness | life | liveliness | overhastiness | precipitance | precipitancy | precipitateness | precipitation | promptness | quickness | rashness | readiness | recklessness | spirit | suddenness | verve | vitality | vivacity | zest | zestfulness

See Also | annoyance | botheration | fidget | fidgetiness | ill nature | intolerance | irritation | restlessness | vexation

Impatience In Webster's Dictionary

\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. --Shak. With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. --Spenser.

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