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patience
n.
1. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.
2. Chiefly British The game solitaire.
Synonyms: patience, long-suffering, resignation, forbearance
These nouns denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint. Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay: Our patience will achieve more than our force (Edmund Burke).
Long-suffering is long and patient endurance, as of wrong or provocation: The general, a man not known for docility and long-suffering, flew into a rage.
Resignation implies acceptance of or submission to something trying, as out of despair or necessity: I undertook the job with an air of resignation.
Forbearance denotes restraint, as in retaliating, demanding what is due, or voicing disapproval: "It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other" (Patrick Henry).
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Dutch Proverb |
patience
1. patience - the capacity for calmly enduring difficult situations: the endless patience of the nurses
2. patience - the ability to wait calmly for something to happen without complaining or giving up: he urged the international community to have patience to allow sanctions to work
3. Brit & NZ a card game for one player only [Latin pati to suffer]
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Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine |
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patience - good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
patience - a cheerful, obliging disposition
patience - a dislike of anything that causes delay
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im·pa·tience
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The quality or condition of being impatient.
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impatience - a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
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impatience - a restless desire for change and excitement
- a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness"
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impatience - a dislike of anything that causes delay
- a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition
- impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"
- good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
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Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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easy·go·ing
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a. easy going - Living without undue worry or concern; calm.
b. easy going - Lax or negligent; careless.
c. easy going - Relaxed or informal in attitude or standards: an easygoing teacher who allowed extra time for assignments.
2. easy going - Not rigorous, demanding, or stressful: an easygoing life as a part-time consultant.
3. easy going - Leisurely; unhurried: an easygoing pace.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo da Vinci |
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easygoing - not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"
- relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"
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easygoing - not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a parttime consultant"; "a soft job"
easy going - posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"
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easygoing - relaxed and informal in attitude or standards; "an easygoing teacher who allowed extra time for assignments"
- requiring little if any patience or effort or skill; "the pay was adequate and the job undemanding"; "simple undemanding affection"; "an undemanding boss"
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Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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| Related Words |
| calmness, patience, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, repose, rest, restraint, serenity, silence, stillness, tranquility , balanced, centered, at ease, relax, patience, living in the present, natural time, planned, deliberate, organized, presence of mind, calm, composure, patience, peace, tranquility, easy going. |
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