Definition of: impatience

(im·pā′shəns) noun
1. Lack of patience; unwillingness to brook delay.
2. Intolerance of opposition or control. [<OF impacience <L impatientia] Synonyms: fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, vexation. These words express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY, ANGER. Antonyms: amiability, benignity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long–suffering, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self–control, self–restraint.