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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Impatience \Im*pa"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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: impatience n 1: a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: {restlessness}] 2: a restless desire for change and excitement 3: a dislike of anything that causes delay [ant: {patience}]
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