patience

patience

noun

Definition of PATIENCE

the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining <the teacher's patience is being sorely tested this year by several parents who seem to have no interest in their children's education>

Synonyms forbearance, long-suffering, sufferance, tolerance

Related Words acquiescence, resignation; passiveness, passivity; amenability, compliance, conformism, docility, obedience, subordination, tractability, willingness; discipline, self-control; submission, submissiveness

Near Antonyms defiance; contrariness, disobedience, insubordination, intractability, recalcitrance, resistance, willfulness

Antonyms impatience