impatience

English

Etymology

From Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. Synchronically analyzable as im- +‎ patience.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/
Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tience

Noun

impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)

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

Antonyms

Translations

quality of being impatient

Arabic: نَفَاد صَبْر‎ m (nafād ṣabr)
Belarusian: нецярплі́васць f (njecjarplívascʹ)
Bulgarian: нетърпеливост (bg) f (netǎrpelivost)
Catalan: impaciència (ca) f
Czech: netrpělivost 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)

Hungarian: türelmetlenség (hu)
Japanese: 焦燥 (ja) (しょうそう, syōsō), 焦り (あせり, aseri)
Latin: aviditās f, impatientia
Luxembourgish: Ongedold f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: utålmodighet (no) m or f

Nynorsk: utolmod n
Portuguese: impaciência (pt) f
Romanian: nerăbdare (ro) f, impaciență (ro) f
Russian: нетерпе́ние (ru) n (neterpénije)
Serbo-Croatian: nestrpljénje (sh) n, nestr̀pljivōst (sh) f
Spanish: impaciencia (es)
Swedish: otålighet (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s/
Audio (file)

Noun

impatience f (plural impatiences)

impatience

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