(n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition or delay; eagerness for change or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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