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patience
noun
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>
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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