Impatience Definition

ĭm-pāshəns
noun
Lack of patience.
Webster's New World
The quality or condition of being impatient.
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Noun

Singular:
impatience
Plural:
impatiences

Origin of Impatience

  • From Old French impacience (modern: impatience), from Latin impatientia.

    From Wiktionary

Impatience Sentence Examples

  • She leaned back, unwilling to let her impatience show.

  • She stamped her foot with impatience.

  • The impatience of the king and his wife gave the minister no time to mature his plans.

  • Impatience prompted me to telephone Ethel Reagan before the allotted hour was up.

  • The cousins met after an interval of twenty-three years, and Lady Hesketh was to be Cowper's good angel to the end, even though her letters disclose a considerable impatience with Mrs Unwin.

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