impatience

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tience

Noun

impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)

2. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

   Synonym: haste

   Antonym: patience

Derived terms

• inheritance impatience

Related terms

• impassivity

Translations

quality of being impatient

• Arabic: نَفَاد صَبْر m (nafād ṣabr)
• Azerbaijani: səbrsizlik
• Belarusian: нецярплі́васць f (njecjarplívascʹ)
• Bulgarian: нетърпеливост (bg) f (netǎrpelivost)
• Catalan: impaciència (ca) f
• Cebuano: kalaay
• Czech: netrpělivost (cs) f
• Danish: utålmodighed c
• Dutch: ongeduld (nl)
• Esperanto: malpacienco
• Finnish: kärsimättömyys (fi), malttamattomuus (fi)
• French: impatience (fr) f
• Georgian: მოუთმენლობა (moutmenloba)
• German: Ungeduld (de) f
• Greek: ανυπομονησία (el) f (anypomonisía)
• Hindi: अधीरता f (adhīrtā), उतावलापन m (utāvlāpan)
• Hungarian: türelmetlenség (hu)
• Icelandic: óþolinmæði (is) f
• Italian: impazienza (it) f
• Japanese: 焦燥 (ja) (しょうそう, syōsō), 焦り (ja) (あせり, aseri)
• Ladino: impasiencia
• Latin: aviditās f, impatientia f
• Luxembourgish: Ongedold f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utålmodighet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: utolmod n

• Plautdietsch: Onjedult f
• Polish: niecierpliwość (pl) f, brak cierpliwości m
• Portuguese: impaciência (pt) f
• Romanian: nerăbdare (ro) f, impaciență (ro) f
• Russian: нетерпе́ние (ru) n (neterpénije)
• Sanskrit: अक्षान्ति (sa) f (akṣānti)
• Serbo-Croatian: nestrpljénje (sh) n, nestr̀pljivōst (sh) f
• Spanish: impaciencia (es) f
• Swedish: otålighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: inip
• Ukrainian: нетерпі́ння n (neterpínnja)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. Morphologically analyzable as impatient +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s/

• Audio:

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Noun

impatience f (plural impatiences)

1. impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)

   Antonym: patience

Related terms

• impatient
• impatienter

Further reading

• “impatience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• impacience

Etymology

Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

Noun

impatience f (uncountable)

1. impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)

   Antonym: patience

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

Noun

impatience (uncountable)

1. impatience (the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something)

   Antonym: patience

   • 1919, Sir Harry Lauder, Between You and Me‎^[1], New York: The James A. McCann Company, page 134:

     Then ye’ll ken hoo I lookit, oot there on the Embankment, wi’ the lichts shinin’ doon on me and a’, and me dancin’ aroond in a fever o’ impatience to be off!

     Then you’ll know whom I saw, out there on the embankment, with the lights shining down on me and all, and me dancing around feverishly from my impatience to be off!