impatience
(noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay
impatience
(noun) a restless desire for change and excitement
restlessness, impatience
(noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• patience
• haste
Source: Wiktionary
Im*pa"tience n. Etym: [OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia.]
Definition: The quality of being impatient; want 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
