Impatience

Definitions: Impatience

Impatience

Noun

1. A lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay.

2. A restless desire for change and excitement.

3. A dislike of anything that causes delay.

Date "impatience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Impatience \Im*pa"tience\n. [from Old English expression impacience, French impatience, from the Latin expression impatientia.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Impatience

Synonym: restlessness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: patience (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,.
Excitability	Noun: excitability, impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness; Adjective: turbulence; impatience, intolerance, nonendurance; irritability; (irascibility); itching; (desire); wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation; (irregular motion).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impatience

English words defined with "impatience": annoyed ♦ Impatiency, In a fume, intolerance, irritated ♦ miffed ♦ nettled ♦ peeved, pissed ♦ riled, roiled ♦ 'Sdeath ♦ steamed, stung ♦ Unpatience ♦ with impatience, Wry face. (references)

Specialty definitions using "impatience": Cat-call ♦ Irritable Mood ♦ Lead ♦ Mad Cavalier ♦ Type A Personality. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Impatience" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (eagerness, fidget, flounce, impatience, restlessness).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That's where complacency and indolence reside Look here, at the bridge of the nose, why do you sneer so often, Maria? Beneath your eyes, those sharp, barely visible wrinkles of boredom and impatience. (Viskningar och rop; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)
Movie/TV Titles	Impatience (1928)
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Domain	Title
Books	12 [i.e. Douze] poètes sans impatience : textes inédits (reference) Impatience (reference) Impatience Quotations: Inspirational, Motivational, and Humorous Quotes on Powerpoint (reference) Minimum impatience theorems for recursive economic models (reference) Paul Buissonneau, ou, La vigoureuse impatience : tragi-comédie en cinq actes (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Revolutionary Girl Utena - Impatience and Longing (Vol. 4) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Beautiful Impatience (reference) Functioning on Impatience (reference) Impatience (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Suspense; anxiety; apprehension; chiller; cliff-hanger; expectancy; expectation; grabber; hesitancy; hesitation; impatience; indecision; indecisiveness; insecurity; irresolution; page-turner; perplexity; potboiler; tension; thriller; uncertainty; tense; i.
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Author	Quotation
Bp. Horne	The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
Edmund Burke	A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Emma waited the result with impatience, but not without strong hopes.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Enjolras felt himself possessed by that impatience which seizes strong souls on the threshold of formidable events.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	A movement of impatience escaped him.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Then patiently hear my impatience.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	The curiosity and impatience of my master were so great, that he spent many hours of his leisure to instruct me.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Suriname	But while the Venetiaan administration has made progress in stabilizing the economy, tensions within the coalition and the impatience of the populace have impeded progress. (references)
	Azerbaijan	Well-heeled Azeri shoppers are known for their impatience and desire to buy immediately and in cash rather than wait weeks for shipments from warehouses in nearby countries. (references)
Political Economy	Mexico	International human rights NGO's expressed support for the Administration's commitment to human rights and for the creation of a Special Prosecutor to investigate disappearances; however, during the year, they began to express impatience with the slow pace of implementation. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Impatience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "Impatience" is used about 448 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.78%	447	12,980
Noun (proper)	0.22%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	448	N/A

Expressions using "impatience": burn with impatience ♦ exhibit impatience ♦ wait with impatience ♦ with impatience. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "impatience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zemërim (anger, bitterness, chafe, conniption, Dander, dudgeon, effervescence, effervescency, exasperation, excitement, huff, indignation, ire, Paddy, paddywhack, passion, petulance, rage, rasp, spite, wax, wrath), padurim (eagerness). (various references)

Arabic		‏فراغ صبر, ‏نفاذ صبر, ‏توق متململ, ‏توق متلهف, ‏تطلع, ‏الهلع (nervousness). (various references)

Bulgarian		силно желание (ambition, anxiety, appetence, appetency, avarice, itch, lust, oestrum, oestrus, yearning), раздразнителност (ill humor, ill humour, inflammability, irascibility, irritability, nerves, petulance, temper), нетърпение (eagerness, hurry), нетърпеливост, нетърпимост (intolerance). (various references)

Chinese		心急, 不耐煩 (impatient). (various references)

Czech		netrpìlivost, nedoèkavost. (various references)

Farsi		ناشکیباءی , بی حوصلگی , بی تابی , بی طاقتی , بی صبری . (various references)

Finnish		maltittomuus (immoderation), kärsimättömyys, hätäisyys (haste, hastiness, hurry). (various references)

French		impatience. (various references)

German		ungeduld. (various references)

Greek		ανυπομονησία (anxiety, eagerness). (various references)

Hebrew		קוצר רוח, חוסר סבל� ות. (various references)

Hungarian		türelmetlenség (intolerance, weariness). (various references)

Italian		impazienza (eagerness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		焦燥 (irritation, uneasiness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうそう (fretfulness, injury, irritation, prematurity, uneasiness, wound, youth), しょうし�" (anxiety, burning oneself, cowardly, grief, heart failure, heartbreak, humble position, promotion, rising in rank, self-immolation, timid), しょうりょ (worry), せいきゅう (a quick temper, application, claim, control, demand, request), あせり. (various references)

Korean		성급함. (various references)

Manx		siyrid (hastiness, rapidness), meehurranse, meehurransaght. (various references)

Norwegian		utålmodighet. (various references)

Pig Latin		impatienceay.(various references)

Portuguese		intolerância (bigotry, intolerance, intolerant), impaciência (eagerness, petulance, Phi), formar pasta. (various references)

Romanian		nervozitate (fidgets, flurry, fret, jangleed nerves, jumpiness, nervousness), nerãbdare (anxiety, eagerness, hastiness, petulance). (various references)

Russian		нетерпение (hurry). (various references)

Scottish		tut (interjection of cold or impatience), ach (but, except, interjection of objection and impatience). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nestrpljenje. (various references)

Spanish		impaciencia (eagerness, fretfulness, hastiness, restiveness). (various references)

Swedish		otålighet (eagerness). (various references)

Turkish		sabırsızlık (eagerness, headiness, restiveness), katlanamama, dayanamama (intolerance). (various references)

Ukranian		нетерпіння (hurry), нетерпимість (intolerance), дратівливість (biliousness, irascibility, irritability, peevishness, soreness, touchiness). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính nóng vội (impatientness), tính nôn nóng (impatientness), sự thiếu kiên nhẫn (impatientness), sự không kiên tâm (impatientness), sự không dung thứ được (impatientness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ardor, intolerantiam. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "impatience": impatiences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Impatience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impatien, impitence, inpatience. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "impatience" (pronounced i'mpā"shuns)
6	-p ā" sh u n s	patience.
5	-ā" sh u n s	admirations.
4	-sh u n s	conscience, persecutions, reinspections.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, penance, performance, permanence, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-m-n-p-t"
	-2 letters: patience.
	-3 letters: cementa, centime, etamine, impaint, intimae, matinee, nematic, pemican, picante, timpani.
	-4 letters: acetin, aminic, anemic, apiece, apneic, catnip, cement, centai, cetane, cinema, emetic, emetin, enatic, encamp, entice, etamin, iceman, icemen, impact, incept, incite, inmate, intima, intime, mantic, meanie, meinie, menace, metepa, pantie, patine, pecten, pectin, pianic, pineta, pinite, pitman, pitmen, tamein, tenace, teniae, tiepin.
	-5 letters: acini, actin, ament, amice, amici, amine, amnic, anime, animi, antic, campi, eaten, enact, enate, enema, entia, epact, etape, imine, inapt, inept, manic, matin, meant, menta, minae, mince, niece, paint, panic, paten, patin, peace, pecan, pence, piece, pieta, pinta, tempi, tenia, tinea.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-m-n-p-t"
	+1 letter: impatiences.
	+3 letters: interpandemic.
	+4 letters: exceptionalism, pinealectomies, pinealectomize, pneumaticities.
	+5 letters: anticompetitive, exceptionalisms, exemplification, implicativeness, phenomenalistic, pinealectomized, pinealectomizes.
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