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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

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. Saadi:

   Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

2. Chris Thyberg:

   Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!

3. Mevlut Cavusoglu:

   Ours was only a fishing boat, it seems to me that the reaction of the Russian naval ship was exaggerated, russia and Turkey certainly have to re-establish the relations of trust that we have always had, but our patience has a limit.

4. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo:

   We thank the African and Ethiopian mediators for their efforts and patience. We also thank our brothers in the Forces for Freedom and Change for the good spirit.

5. Saadi Shirazi:

   Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.