Synonyms for patience
ˈpeɪ ʃənspa·tience

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. patience

   Patience is the quality or habit of mind shown in bearing passively and uncomplainingly any pain, evil, or hardship that may fall to one's lot. Endurance hardens itself against suffering, and may be merely stubborn; fortitude is endurance animated by courage; endurance may by modifiers be made to have a passive force, as when we speak of "passive endurance;" patience is not so hard as endurance nor so self-effacing as submission. Submission is ordinarily and resignation always applied to matters of great moment, while patience may apply to slight worries and annoyances. As regards our relations to our fellow men, forbearance is abstaining from retaliation or revenge; patience is keeping kindliness of heart under vexatious conduct; long-suffering is continued patience. Patience may also have an active force denoting uncomplaining steadiness in doing, as in tilling the soil. Compare INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   calmness, composure, endurance, forbearance, fortitude, leniency, long-suffering, resignation, submission, sufferance

   Preposition:
   Patience in or amid sufferings; patience with (rarely toward) opposers or offenders; patience under afflictions; (rarely) patience of heat or cold, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. patience

   Synonyms:
   endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance

   Antonyms:
   resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. patience, forbearance, longanimitynoun

   good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

   Antonyms:
   impatience

2. solitaire, patiencenoun

   a card game played by one person

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

   Antonyms:
   impatience

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1. long suffering

   to suffer long is to be patient.

   waiting patiently

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

2. orimi

   Submitted by anonymous on June 18, 2020  

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1. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   endurance (without complaint), fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, long-sufferance, long-suffering

2. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   perseverance, persistence, indefatigableness, constancy, diligence, assiduity

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1. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   long-suffering, fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, indulgence, leniency, forbearance, persistence, diligence, perseverance

   Antonyms:
   impatience, restiveness, resistance

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1. List of paraphrases for "patience":

   patient, forbearance, indulgence, impatience, sabra

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1. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   There needs to be patience to wait and see the impact of this fight.

2. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama:

   We do not want to allow patience fatigue (over EU entry) to become the enemy. We have to ... see some concrete results.

3. Jens Spahn:

   If the approvals we expect come through for vaccines developed by AstraZeneca, CureVac or Johnson Johnson, then in the summer Germany will be able to offer everyone a vaccine, we need patience. We have started the road out of this but a long path lies ahead.

4. Sonya Hightower:

   Now do that 14, 15, 16 hours a day. Anybody's patience, anybody's ability to function at the highest level is going to be compromised.

5. Manu:

   Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses.*