Synonyms for patience
ˈpeɪ ʃənspa·tience

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. patience

   Patience is the quality or habit of mind shown in bearing passively and uncomplainingly any pain, evil, or hardship that may fall to one's lot. Endurance hardens itself against suffering, and may be merely stubborn; fortitude is endurance animated by courage; endurance may by modifiers be made to have a passive force, as when we speak of "passive endurance;" patience is not so hard as endurance nor so self-effacing as submission. Submission is ordinarily and resignation always applied to matters of great moment, while patience may apply to slight worries and annoyances. As regards our relations to our fellow men, forbearance is abstaining from retaliation or revenge; patience is keeping kindliness of heart under vexatious conduct; long-suffering is continued patience. Patience may also have an active force denoting uncomplaining steadiness in doing, as in tilling the soil. Compare INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   calmness, composure, endurance, forbearance, fortitude, leniency, long-suffering, resignation, submission, sufferance

   Preposition:
   Patience in or amid sufferings; patience with (rarely toward) opposers or offenders; patience under afflictions; (rarely) patience of heat or cold, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. patience

   Synonyms:
   endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance

   Antonyms:
   resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. patience, forbearance, longanimitynoun

   good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

   Antonyms:
   impatience

2. solitaire, patiencenoun

   a card game played by one person

   Synonyms:
   forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

   Antonyms:
   impatience

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1. long suffering

   to suffer long is to be patient.

   waiting patiently

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

2. orimi

   Submitted by anonymous on June 18, 2020  

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1. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   endurance (without complaint), fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, long-sufferance, long-suffering

2. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   perseverance, persistence, indefatigableness, constancy, diligence, assiduity

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1. patiencenoun

   Synonyms:
   long-suffering, fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, indulgence, leniency, forbearance, persistence, diligence, perseverance

   Antonyms:
   impatience, restiveness, resistance

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1. List of paraphrases for "patience":

   patient, forbearance, indulgence, impatience, sabra

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1. Joseph J. Lamb:

   The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   Patience is the gardener's virtue; in time, even the smallest seed becomes the mightiest oak. ― Aloo Denish Obiero

3. John Andrew Holmes:

   Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.

4. Chris Young:

   I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defenses (anymore), i think that Elliott - given their size, their relative aggressiveness versus other activists – are saying we've got the capital, we've got the patience that's necessary and we're going to try to now unlock Europe.

5. Horace Bushnell:

   It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.