patience

Meaning

patience (the quality of being patient)

Concepts

patience

forbearance

endurance

tolerance

perseverance

solitaire

patient

persistence

self-control

self-denial

tenacity

longanimity

patient endurance

affected role

patient role

energy

forgiveness

generosity

longsuffering

pardon

Opposite of

impatience

Synonyms

endurance

tolérance

persévérance

réussite

maîtrise de soi

pardon

patient

dévouement

contrôle de soi

longanimité

attend

dignité

énergie

générosité

Translations

Geduld

paciência

paciencia

pazienza

paciència

geduld

sabır

υπομονή

sebat

lijdzaamheid

Ausdauer

Langmut

أناة

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pa.sjɑ̃s/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French: pacience

Borrowed from Latin: patientia

In summary

Inherited from Middle French patience, from Old French pacience (modern English patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”).