Impatience

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being impatient.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or character of lacking patience; restlessness under existing conditions; eager desire for relief or change.
  • n. Intolerance of anything that thwarts or hinders; passionate vehemence; in a milder sense, quickness of temper; touchiness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a restless desire for change and excitement
  • n. a dislike of anything that causes delay
  • n. a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
  • Antonym
    patience   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
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    Rhyme
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    Patience    patience   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anger    frustration    anxiety    irritation    eagerness