Found 2 items, similar to Impatience.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: impatience impatience n 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Impatience 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. [1913 Webster] I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. --Shak. [1913 Webster] With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]