patience
//ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns//
Forms
- Plural
- patiences
Definitions
1.The quality of being patient.
- I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it.
- Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.
2.Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4288
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”).