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Impatience   /ɪmpˈeɪʃəns/   Listen
Impatience

noun
1.
A lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay.  Synonym: restlessness.
2.
A restless desire for change and excitement.
3.
A dislike of anything that causes delay.






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"Impatience" Quotes from Famous Books



... dance was over, the young lady was in a fever of impatience to get away. Qualms of remorse seized her for the way she had treated her one-time escort, and she hinted at the trouble in store for her if the ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice

... impatience to the day of his trip to the trading-station; twelve hours of relief, it would mean, from the worst pressure of his torment—twelve hours of merciful solitude in the old, voiceful friendliness of his forest trail. He started ...
— Snow-Blind • Katharine Newlin Burt

... fish had just been pitched; unluckily, too, he was not careful to plant his weight amidships. The dory, overbalanced to starboard, careened suddenly, and he fell sprawling on the slimy bottom. Jim could not repress an exclamation of impatience. ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... full poet-luxury,—the luxury of silence and solitude. He attired himself quickly, and with a vaguely nervous eagerness,—he was in almost as great a hurry to enter the Dom as he had been to arrive at the Field of Ardath! The same feverish impatience was upon him—impatience that he was conscious of, yet could not account for,—his fancy busied itself with a whole host of memories, and fragments of half-forgotten love-songs he had written in his youth, came back to him without his wish or will,— songs that he instinctively felt belonged ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... the order of Mr. Ambrose, that he should keep his bed, from which, indeed, he could not have raised himself without assistance. He became sensible that his anxiety, and his constant efforts for some days past, had been too much for his health, and that, whatever might be his impatience, he could not proceed in his undertaking ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott


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