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impatience
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English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- + patience.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tience
Noun
impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)
- The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
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Translations
quality of being impatient
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. Morphologically analyzable as impatient + -ence.
Pronunciation
Noun
impatience f (plural impatiences)
- impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)
- Antonym: patience
Related terms
Further reading
- “impatience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Middle French
Alternative forms
- impacience
Etymology
Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- + patience.
Noun
impatience f (uncountable)
- impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)
- Antonym: patience
Scots
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- + patience.
Noun
impatience (uncountable)
- impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)
- Antonym: patience
- 1919, Sir Harry Lauder, Between You and Me, New York: The James A. McCann Company, page 134:
- Then ye’ll ken hoo I lookit, oot there on the Embankment, wi’ the lichts shinin’ doon on me and a’, and me dancin’ aroond in a fever o’ impatience to be off!
- Then you’ll know whom I saw, out there on the embankment, with the lights shining down on me and all, and me dancing around feverishly from my impatience to be off!
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