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impatience Definition

im·pa·tience (im pā′s̸həns)

noun

lack of patience; specif.,
  1. annoyance because of delay, opposition, etc.
  2. restless eagerness to do something, go somewhere, etc.

Etymology: ME impacience < OFr < L impatientia

impatience Synonyms

impatience

n.

  1. Irritability

    fretfulness, hastiness, quick temper; see anger, annoyance 1.

  2. Restlessness

    eagerness, agitation, disquietude, anxiety; see care 2, excitement, nervousness 1, 2.

impatience Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • youth: This impatience of youth pictured an endless slog with a shovel, which indeed it must have been.
  • mass: It was an answer that characterized equally the revolutionary impatience of the masses and the counter-revolutionary character of the Soviet moderates.

Converse of object

  • grow: The key demands reflect growing impatience at a lack of change for Black communities.
  • show: A few of our students have shown an impatience to move from simple drills to advanced drills to swimming to swimming fast.
  • increase: There is increasing impatience in the security community with vulnerabilities in Microsoft software.
  • feel: Thus we feel some impatience in Hal's behalf.
  • have: But even then he had a passionate impatience to become a powerful magician.

Preposition: for

  • result: When does impatience for results lead you to ignore the need for dialog and participation?
  • change: I do not underestimate the scale of the task, but there is some impatience for change.

Adjective modifier

  • certain: Over lunch one day, he expressed a certain impatience with " victim nationalities " .
  • own: I felt ashamed, until I remembered my own impatience as a driver.
  • such: And, up to a point, such impatience is understandable.
  • great: We waited therefore with the greatest impatience, for the return of Edward in order to impart to him the result of our Deliberations.
  • revolutionary: It was an answer that characterized equally the revolutionary impatience of the masses and the counter-revolutionary character of the Soviet moderates.
  • acute: He is also a lawyer who suffers acute impatience with the processes of the law.

Preposition: with

  • process: He is also a lawyer who suffers acute impatience with the processes of the law.
impatience Quotes

But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.

—Raine, Craig Anthony

Whatever may have been my enthusiasm or impatience to be up and doing on the night before, the hour for getting up always finds me with no other ambition in the world than to be permitted to lie where I am and sleep, sleep, sleep.Not soTilman.Ihave never met anyonewith such a complete disregard for the sublime comforts of the early morning bed. However monstrously early we might decide, thenight before, toget up, hewas about at least half an hour before the time. He was generally very good about it, and used to sit placidly smoking his pipe over the fire.

—Shipton, Eric Earle