impatience

Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/

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• Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tience

impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)

2. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

   Synonym: haste

   Antonym: patience

• impassivity

Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. Morphologically analyzable as impatient +‎ -ence.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s/

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impatience f (plural impatiences)

1. impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)

   Antonym: patience

• “impatience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• impacience

Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

impatience f (uncountable)

1. impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)

   Antonym: patience

Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

impatience (uncountable)

1. impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)

   Antonym: patience

   • 1919, Sir Harry Lauder, Between You and Me‎^[1], New York: The James A. McCann Company, page 134:

     Then ye’ll ken hoo I lookit, oot there on the Embankment, wi’ the lichts shinin’ doon on me and a’, and me dancin’ aroond in a fever o’ impatience to be off!

     Then you’ll know whom I saw, out there on the embankment, with the lights shining down on me and all, and me dancing around feverishly from my impatience to be off!