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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impatience \Im*pa"tience\n. [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.] The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.
I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. --Shak.
With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impatience
noun
1: a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: {restlessness}]
2: a restless desire for change and excitement
3: a dislike of anything that causes delay [ant: {patience}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "impatience": alacrity, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, avidity, avidness, breathless impatience, cheerful readiness, eagerness, elan, forwardness, gust, gusto, haste, hastiness, impetuosity, impetuousness, impulsiveness, keen desire, keenness, life, liveliness, overhastiness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, promptness, quickness, rashness, readiness, recklessness, spirit, suddenness, verve, vitality, vivacity, zest, zestfulness
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