Thesaurus: impatience

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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.
2. n. a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
3. n. a restless desire for change and excitement
4. n. a dislike of anything that causes delay
5. 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.
6. The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain,suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or forsomething 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, Answeredneglectingly. Shak.With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that hecould not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser.
7. n:100 n. a restless desire for change and excitement n. a dislike of anything that causes delay