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[ UK /ɪmpˈe‍ɪʃəns/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dislike of anything that causes delay
  2. a restless desire for change and excitement
  3. a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay

How To Use impatience In A Sentence

  • The watch on deck soon came to the conclusion that "sailoring" was not particularly funny at night, for there was a good deal of gaping, and not a little impatience for the eight bells that would relieve them for Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
  • Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
  • He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience.
  • A note of impatience had entered his voice.
  • Her face was furrowed with impatience, and she looked, then, almost my own age, middle twenties, instead of like a full-time high-school cutter of classes.
  • As December passed by, and the term drew to a close, Patty's impatience began almost to get the better of her. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life
  • Maybe it was to show that my impatience is something I need to come to terms with. Not to worry
  • Don't let impatience jinx that home plan. The Sun
  • The horses pranced and reared in anxious impatience.
  • I watched over my hasty temper, subdued my burning impatience of character, schooled my self-engrossing thoughts, educating myself to the best perfection I might attain, that the fruit of my exertions might be his happiness. The Last Man
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