Synonyms for Patience
ˈpeɪ ʃənspa·tience

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. patience

   Patience is the quality or habit of mind shown in bearing passively and uncomplainingly any pain, evil, or hardship that may fall to one's lot. Endurance hardens itself against suffering, and may be merely stubborn; fortitude is endurance animated by courage; endurance may by modifiers be made to have a passive force, as when we speak of "passive endurance;" patience is not so hard as endurance nor so self-effacing as submission. Submission is ordinarily and resignation always applied to matters of great moment, while patience may apply to slight worries and annoyances. As regards our relations to our fellow men, forbearance is abstaining from retaliation or revenge; patience is keeping kindliness of heart under vexatious conduct; long-suffering is continued patience. Patience may also have an active force denoting uncomplaining steadiness in doing, as in tilling the soil. Compare INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   calmness, composure, endurance, forbearance, fortitude, leniency, long-suffering, resignation, submission, sufferance

   Preposition:
   Patience in or amid sufferings; patience with (rarely toward) opposers or offenders; patience under afflictions; (rarely) patience of heat or cold, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. patience

   Synonyms:
   endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance

   Antonyms:
   resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. patience, forbearance, longanimitynoun

   good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, patience, longanimity

   Antonyms:
   impatience

2. solitaire, patiencenoun

   a card game played by one person

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, patience, longanimity

   Antonyms:
   impatience

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1. long suffering

   to suffer long is to be patient.

   waiting patiently

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

2. orimi

   Submitted by anonymous on June 18, 2020  

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1. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   endurance (without complaint), fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, long-sufferance, long-suffering

2. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   perseverance, persistence, indefatigableness, constancy, diligence, assiduity

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1. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   long-suffering, fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, indulgence, leniency, forbearance, persistence, diligence, perseverance

   Antonyms:
   impatience, restiveness, resistance

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1. List of paraphrases for "patience":

   patient, forbearance, indulgence, impatience, sabra

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1. Olivia Jade:

   I would not consider myself a dancer by any means, but it's so much more work than you really anticipate with the dedication and the patience you have to have with yourself, the pros make it look so effortless and easy, but once you get in there and they're really teaching you the steps, it's way harder than I ever thought. But what I will say is the pros do such a good job.

2. Jacob Kohnstamm:

   This has been ongoing since 2012 and we hope our patience will no longer be tested.

3. Ben Emmerson:

   It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tin pot despot, a morally deranged authoritarian who was at that very moment clinging desperately onto political power in the face of international sanctions and a rising chorus of international condemnation, after years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost its patience now with Mr Putin's judo politics and his cringing hard-man photo opportunities.

4. Unknown:

   Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

5. Steven Englander:

   The FOMC will be afraid that dropping patience without making some reference to the USD or international asset market conditions will lead to an even faster USD pickup, paradoxically, if they are serious about hiking mid-year, a USD breakout may limit their options.