impatience
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- + patience.
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Noun edit
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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quality of being impatient
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. Morphologically analyzable as impatient + -ence.
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Noun edit
impatience f (plural impatiences)
- impatience
- Antonym: patience
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Further reading edit
- “impatience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.