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patience
Synonyms and Antonyms 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
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