Synonyms for impatience
ɪmˈpeɪ ʃənsim·pa·tience

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1. impatiencenoun

   Antonyms:
   patience

2. impatiencenoun

   Antonyms:
   patience

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1. impatience

   Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion," Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. e., at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, temper, vexation, wrath

   Antonyms:
   amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraint

   Preposition:
   Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

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1. restlessness, impatiencenoun

   a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay

   Synonyms:
   uneasiness, fidgetiness, fidget, queasiness, restlessness

   Antonyms:
   longanimity, patience, forbearance

2. impatiencenoun

   a restless desire for change and excitement

   Synonyms:
   restlessness

   Antonyms:
   patience, forbearance, longanimity

3. impatiencenoun

   a dislike of anything that causes delay

   Synonyms:
   restlessness

   Antonyms:
   forbearance, patience, longanimity

Matched Categories

1. • Ill Nature
   • Restlessness

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1. impatiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   disquietude, restlessness, uneasiness

2. impatiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   vehemence, impetuosity, haste, eagerness, precipitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "impatience":

   eagerness, anticipation, patience

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How to use impatience in a sentence?

1. Demosthenes:

   It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

2. Scott Morrison:

   I noticed Bill Shorten's frustration yesterday, but you know, that impatience is born of arrogance.

3. Hacker News:

   Due to the massive interest of users surrounding the Fortnite game, many gaming and tutorial websites have started taking advantage of Android users' impatience with frighteningly convincing scams, which is all over Google and YouTube as well.

4. Joseph Rickaby:

   A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

5. Franz Kafka:

   There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.