impatience
IPA: ɪmpˈeɪʃʌns
noun
- The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
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Examples of "impatience" in Sentences
- I don't understand the impatience.
- His attitude was impatience and furious.
- His attitude was impatience and naivete.
- It's impatience that led to the current difficulties.
- So we find a certain impatience and restlessness in their agenda.
- I need something good to read & my impatience is starting to make an appearance!
- Maybe it was to show that my impatience is something I need to come to terms with.
- Obama needs to work harder to connect with moderates, even if their impatience is premature.
- Nor do I think that this impatience is necessarily "in step" with right-wing cultural values.
- Point Two: This conservative impatience is bred solely out of ignorant fear, misstrust, and mistruths.
- What Halberstam and Berube share, ultimately, is a plain impatience with if not disdain for trifling old literature.
- But I can understand a certain impatience with reading the millionth entry in the log of the USS Mary Sue (or Ye Unpredictably Capitalized Chonicles of Mary Sue, or whatever).
- For long-term investors, this was an opportunity to "exploit the short-term impatience," says David Herro , portfolio manager for Oakmark International and Oakmark International Small Cap .
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