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impatience

[ im-pey-shuhns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

impatience

/ ɪmˈpeɪʃəns /

lack of patience; intolerance of or irritability with anything that impedes or delays
restless desire for change and excitement

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English impacience, from Latin impatientia; im- ², patience

American women expressed their support and impatience when fighting puritanism and conservatism using Femen tactics.

I called to her, but she slipped away with a tormenting smile at my helpless hands, and I followed her with some impatience.

I waited and waited, closing my eyes with fear and impatience, but all was silent as the grave.

Similarly, how little time Shostakovich spent on his work elucidates the fever and impatience of his mind.

It was characterized by apocalyptic and incendiary rhetoric, anger, impatience, and revolutionary zeal.

I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"

Felipe was so full of impatience to continue his search, that he hardly listened to the Father's words.

But he could not bear the reflection, and with fevered impatience, he hurried through the business of the morning.

Perhaps their course is wiser than that which hot impatience would prompt—nay, I believe it is.

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