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- Dictionarypatience/ˈpeɪʃns/
noun
- 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious: "you can find bargains if you have the patience to sift through the rubbish" Similar Opposite
- 2. any of various forms of card game for one player, the object of which is to use up all one's cards by forming particular arrangements and sequences. British
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the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed: You have to have a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids. In the end I lost my patience and shouted at her. He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils.
PATIENCE meaning: 1. the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without…. Learn more.
The meaning of PATIENCE is the capacity, habit, or fact of being patient. How to use patience in a sentence.
the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. Synonyms: submissiveness, sufferance, self-possession, stability, composure.
patience. 4 meanings: 1. tolerant and even-tempered perseverance 2. the capacity for calmly enduring pain, trying situations, etc 3..... Click for more definitions.
Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. It takes a lot of patience to wait for your braces to come off, to deal with a toddler's temper tantrum, or to build a house out of toothpicks.
patience (with somebody/something) the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider) such views. People have lost patience with (= have become annoyed about) the slow pace of reform.
the quality of being able to stay calm and not get angry, especially when something takes a long time: Finally, I lost my patience and shouted at her. Making small scale models takes a lot of patience. Opposite. impatience.
patience (with somebody/something) the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider) such views. People have lost patience with (= have become annoyed about) the slow pace of reform. My patience is wearing thin.
Origin of Patience Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern: patience), from Latin patientia.
