longanimity

English

Etymology

From Late Latin longanimitās, from longanimus, translating Ancient Greek μακροθυμία (makrothumía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɒŋɡəˈnɪmɪti/

Noun

longanimity (uncountable)

1. (now rare) Patience or tolerance in the face of adversity; forbearance, long-suffering.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     It had overcome the patience of Job, as it did the meekness of Moses, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity, and lasting sufferance of God [...].