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Impatience - 3 dictionary results

im⋅pa⋅tience

[im-pey-shuhns]
–noun
1. lack of patience.
2. eager desire for relief or change; restlessness.
3. intolerance of anything that thwarts, delays, or hinders.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME impacience < L impatientia. See im- 2 , patience
im·pa·tience   (ĭm-pā'shəns)   
n.  The quality or condition of being impatient.

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. --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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