What part of speech is impatience?

Impatience can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does impatience mean?

Definitions

Noun

impatience - a dislike of anything that causes delay
impatience - a restless desire for change and excitement
impatience - a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay

Examples of impatience

#   Sentence  
1. noun The audience showed their impatience with a stamping of feet.
2. noun He made a gesture of impatience.
3. noun You have to deal with impatience!
4. noun Infinite patience and infinite impatience: one of these two expressions makes sense and the other doesn't.
5. noun He's nervous due to impatience.
6. noun In every period of transition this riff-raff, which exists in every society, rises to the surface, and is not only without any aim but has not even a symptom of an idea, and merely does its utmost to give expression to uneasiness and impatience.
7. noun He could no longer contain his impatience.
8. noun Impatience is a definite impediment to success.
9. noun I don't take kindly to pushiness or impatience.
10. noun Tom tried to suppress his impatience.
11. noun Dying now a second time, she yet cannot reproach her husband, for how can she blame his impatience to behold her?
12. noun The horse of the fair huntress showed symptoms of impatience and restiveness.
13. noun A moment of patience can avoid great unhappiness, a moment of impatience can ruin a whole life.
14. noun Colonel Ashton, frantic for revenge, was already in the field, pacing the turf with eagerness, and looking with impatience towards the Tower for the arrival of his antagonist.
15. noun The sun had now risen, and showed its broad disk above the eastern sea, so that he could easily discern the horseman who rode towards him with speed which argued impatience equal to his own.
Sentence  
noun
The audience showed their impatience with a stamping of feet.
He made a gesture of impatience.
You have to deal with impatience!
Infinite patience and infinite impatience: one of these two expressions makes sense and the other doesn't.
He's nervous due to impatience.
In every period of transition this riff-raff, which exists in every society, rises to the surface, and is not only without any aim but has not even a symptom of an idea, and merely does its utmost to give expression to uneasiness and impatience.
He could no longer contain his impatience.
Impatience is a definite impediment to success.
I don't take kindly to pushiness or impatience.
Tom tried to suppress his impatience.
Dying now a second time, she yet cannot reproach her husband, for how can she blame his impatience to behold her?
The horse of the fair huntress showed symptoms of impatience and restiveness.
A moment of patience can avoid great unhappiness, a moment of impatience can ruin a whole life.
Colonel Ashton, frantic for revenge, was already in the field, pacing the turf with eagerness, and looking with impatience towards the Tower for the arrival of his antagonist.
The sun had now risen, and showed its broad disk above the eastern sea, so that he could easily discern the horseman who rode towards him with speed which argued impatience equal to his own.

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