impaciencia

See also: impaciência and impaciència

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impatientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impaˈθjenθja/ [ĩm.paˈθjẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /impaˈsjensja/ [ĩm.paˈsjẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: im‧pa‧cien‧cia

Noun

impaciencia f (plural impaciencias)

1. impatience

   Antonym: paciencia

Related terms

• impacientar
• impaciente

Further reading

• “impaciencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10