impatience

From Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- +‎ patience.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/

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• Hyphenation: im‧pa‧tience

impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)

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

• patience
• haste

• impassivity

Inherited from Old French impacience, from Latin impatientia. Morphologically analyzable as impatient +‎ -ence.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s/

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impatience f (plural impatiences)

1. impatience

   Antonym: patience

• “impatience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.