Synonyms for impatience
Most common
haste eagerness restlessness impetuosity uneasiness impatientness
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Noun
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
Forms
- Plural
- impatiences → restlessnesses, hastes, eagernesses, impetuosities…
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Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- haste I made haste for fear that I should miss the bus.
- eagerness Pierre ate and drank a lot, with his usual eagerness.
- restlessness I asked him what was causing his restlessness.
- uneasiness He took a deep breath and tried to put his uneasiness to rest.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| impatience | rising | |
| haste | rising | |
| eagerness | rising | |
| restlessness | steady | |
| impetuosity | steady | |
| uneasiness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- haste1
- 9 letters
- eagerness3
- 10 letters
- uneasiness4
- 11 letters
- impetuosity
- 12 letters
- restlessness3
- 13 letters
- precipitation5, impatientness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (eagerness3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- impatience
- Italiano
- impazienza
- Español
- impaciencia
- Deutsch
- Ungeduld