impatience : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: impatience	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for impatience
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impatience n a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay Synonym(s): restlessness, impatience a restless desire for change and excitement a dislike of anything that causes delay Antonym(s): forbearance, longanimity, patience
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impatience \Impa"tience\n. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.] 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.