impatience
Syllables: im·pa·tience/ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/
impatience noun: the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
Noun
impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)
- The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
impatience meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
impatience in Hindi
- quality of being impatient
- अधीरता adhīrtā, उतावलापन utāvlāpan, उत्सुकता utsuktā
impatience in Tamil
- impatience
- பொறாமை poṟāmai
impatience in Marathi
- quality of being impatient
- अधीरता adhīratā
impatience in Urdu
- بےچینی, بےصبری
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- impatience in Bengali
- অক্ষেমা okkhema
- impatience in Telugu
- ఔత్సుక్యము autsukyamu
- impatience in Malayalam
- അക്ഷമ, ക്ഷമകേട്, വ്യഗ്രത, അസ്വസ്ഥത
- impatience in Kannada
- ಸಿಡಿಮಿಡಿ, ಉರುಟುತನ, ಕರುಪು
- impatience in Gujarati
- અધીરાઈ, અધીરાપણું
- impatience in Odia
- ଅଧୈର୍ଯ୍ଯ଼, ଅଧୈର୍ଯ୍ଯ଼ତା, ଧୈର୍ଯ୍ଯ଼ହୀନତା
- impatience in Sanskrit
- अक्षान्ति akṣānti
- impatience in Nepali
- अधीरता
- impatience in Tagalog
- inip
- impatience in Arabic
- نَفَاد صَبْر nafād ṣabr
Examples of impatience in a sentence
- I left because she gave off a sense of impatience with me.
- He then departed to wait, with impatience, for the next day, and the promised appointment.
- Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.
Synonyms of impatience
Antonyms
Forms of impatience
| plural | impatiences |
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Origin of impatience
Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- + patience.
Words formed from impatience
- inheritance impatience
Questions about impatience
- What does impatience mean?
- Impatience means the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
- What is impatience in Hindi?
- Impatience in Hindi is अधीरता (adhīrtā), उतावलापन (utāvlāpan), उत्सुकता (utsuktā). See Impatience meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is impatience?
- Impatience is a noun.
- How do you pronounce impatience?
- Impatience is pronounced /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/.
- What is the plural of impatience?
- The plural of impatience is impatiences.
Words near impatience in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: impatience (page history and authors); பொறாமை (Tamil) (page history and authors); impatience (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অক্ষেমা (Bengali) (page history and authors); ఔత్సుక్యము (Telugu) (page history and authors); impatience (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); impatience (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impatience (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); impatience (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); impatience (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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