impatience

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):

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• Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tience

Noun

impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)

2. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

   Synonym: haste

   Antonym: patience

Related terms

• impassivity

Translations

quality of being impatient

Arabic: نَفَاد صَبْر m (nafād ṣabr) Azerbaijani: səbrsizlik Belarusian: нецярплі́васць f (njecjarplívascʹ) Bulgarian: нетърпеливост (bg) f (netǎrpelivost) Catalan: impaciència (ca) f Cebuano: kalaay Czech: netrpělivost (cs) f Danish: utålmodighed c Dutch: ongeduld (nl) Esperanto: malpacienco Finnish: kärsimättömyys (fi), malttamattomuus (fi) French: impatience (fr) f Georgian: მოუთმენლობა (moutmenloba) German: Ungeduld (de) f Greek: ανυπομονησία (el) f (anypomonisía) Hindi: अधीरता f (adhīrtā) Hungarian: türelmetlenség (hu) Icelandic: óþolinmæði (is) f Italian: impazienza (it) f Japanese: 焦燥 (ja) (しょうそう, syōsō), 焦り (ja) (あせり, aseri) Ladino: impasiencia Latin: aviditās f, impatientia f Luxembourgish: Ongedold f Norwegian: Bokmål: utålmodighet (no) m or f Nynorsk: utolmod n Plautdietsch: Onjedult f Polish: niecierpliwość (pl) f, brak cierpliwości m Portuguese: impaciência (pt) f Romanian: nerăbdare (ro) f, impaciență (ro) f Russian: нетерпе́ние (ru) n (neterpénije) Sanskrit: अक्षान्ति (sa) f (akṣānti) Serbo-Croatian: nestrpljénje (sh) n, nestr̀pljivōst (sh) f Spanish: impaciencia (es) Swedish: otålighet (sv) c Tagalog: inip Ukrainian: нетерпі́ння n (neterpínnja)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. Morphologically analyzable as impatient +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s/

• Audio:

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Noun

impatience f (plural impatiences)

1. impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)

   Antonym: patience

Related terms

• impatient
• impatienter

Further reading

• “impatience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• impacience

Etymology

Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

Noun

impatience f (uncountable)

1. 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)

1. 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!