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Impatience

//ɪmˈpeɪʃəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a dislike of anything that causes delay wordnet
  3. 3
    a restless desire for change and excitement wordnet
  4. 4
    a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay wordnet

Etymology

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

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