patience

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. leniency, tolerance; perseverance, persistence; forbearance, long-suffering, submission, endurance; solitaire. See inexcitability, resignation.Ant., impatience.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Willingness to endure]

Syn. forbearance, fortitude, composure, submission, endurance, stoicism, tolerance, impeturbability, nonresistance, longanimity, self-control, passiveness, bearing, serenity, calmness, even temper, equanimity, yielding, poise, sufferance, long-suffering, moderation, leniency, indulgence; see also resignation 1 .

Ant. impatience, hastiness, restlessness.

2. [Ability to continue]

Syn. perseverance, persistence, steadiness; see endurance 2 .

Syn.- patience implies the bearing of suffering, provocation, delay, tediousness, etc. with calmness and self-control [ her patience with children ] ; endurance stresses the capacity to bear suffering, hardship, or prolonged strain [ Job's endurance of his afflictions ] ; fortitude suggests the resolute endurance that results from firm, sustained courage [ the fortitude of the pioneers ] ; forbearance implies restraint under provocation or a refraining from retaliation for a wrong [ he acted with forbearance toward the hecklers ] ; stoicism suggests such endurance of suffering without flinching as to indicate an almost austere indifference to pain or pleasure

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

endurance, perseverance, *staying power, stamina, stick-to-itiveness, tenacity, diligence, forbearance, tolerance, understanding, *long fuse, *type B behavior, even temper, composure. ''Passion tamed.''—Lyman Abbott. ''The life-long martydom.''— Longfellow.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint: forbearance, long-suffering, resignation, tolerance. See ACCEPT.