Entry Word: patience

Function: noun

Meaning: the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining <my mother is endowed with nearly endless patience>

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