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Definition of Impatience
1. Noun. A lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay.
Generic synonyms: Annoyance, Botheration, Irritation, Vexation
Derivative terms: Impatient
2. Noun. A restless desire for change and excitement.
3. Noun. A dislike of anything that causes delay.
Specialized synonyms: Intolerance
Derivative terms: Impatient
Antonyms: Patience
Definition of Impatience
1. 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.
Definition of Impatience
1. Noun. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impatience
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impatience
Literary usage of Impatience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Therefore another human being, too, perishes through the impatience of the one;
presently, too, perishes of himself, through his own impatience committed ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The martial impatience of Julian urged him to take the field in the beginning of
the spring, and he dismissed, with contempt and reproach, the senate of ..."
3. The rule and exercises of holy dying. [Another] by Jeremy Taylor (1859)
"Remedies against impatience, by way of Consideration. As it happens concerning
death, so it is in sickness which is death's handmaid. ..."
4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... curtly, tingling with impatience. Always before—at least she fancied so—Grandcourt
had taken more notice of her and the children than he did to-day. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"On St. Ruth's impatience to come to an engagement after the loss of Athlone, the
Duke of Berwick observes, that " etant fache & honteux du mauvais succes ..."
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