Meaning & use
patience
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, difficulty, or annoyance without becoming upset.
See it in a sentence
Teaching young children requires an enormous amount of patience.
His patience finally ran out after the third canceled appointment.
A note on using this word
Patience is often paired with 'have' or 'lose,' as in 'have patience' or 'lose patience,' rather than being described as an action itself.
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