inexcitability

inexcitability
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Patience
Nouns
1. inexcitability, imperturbability; even temper, equanimity, equilibrium, tranquillity, dispassion; tolerance, patience; hebetude, hebetation; insensibility.See submission, moderation, restraint.
2. coolness, calmness, composure, placidity, indisturbance, imperturbation, aplomb, sangfroid, serenity; quiet, quietude; peace of mind.
3. staidness, gravity, sobriety, Quakerism; fortitude, stoicism; self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint; presence of mind, patience of Job.
Verbs
1. not get excited, be composed, laissez-faire, take things as they come; take it easy, live and let live; take in good part.
2. acquiesce, submit, yield (see submission); resign or reconcile oneself to; brook, swallow, pocket, stomach; make light of, make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; put a good face on, keep one's countenance. Slang, keep one's cool.
3. compose, appease, moderate; repress, restrain; master one's feelings, keep one's head, keep one's wits about one; bite one's lips or tongue, count to ten; get it all together, calm or cool down. Informal, simmer down. Slang, hold one's horses, keep one's shirt on, keep one's cool.
Adjectives
1. inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible, insensible; dispassionate, cold-blooded, enduring, stoical, Platonic, philosophical, staid, sober-minded; nonchalant, coolheaded, demure, sedate.
2. easygoing, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet, tranquil, serene; cool [as a cucumber], undemonstrative, temperate; composed, collected. Slang, laid-back.
3. patient [as Job]; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle [as a lamb]; mild [as milk]; armed with patience, long-suffering.
Adverbs — inexcitably, etc.; in cold blood.
Phrases — all commend patience, but none can endure to suffer; all things come to those who wait; patience is a virtue.
Quotations — Beware the fury of a patient man (John Dryden), Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity (Thomas Hardy), A calm despair, without angry convulsion or reproaches directed to heaven, is the essence of wisdom (Alfred de Vigny).
Antonyms, see excitability, excitement.

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