impatience

Etymology

From Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. Synchronically analyzable as im- + patience.

noun

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

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