impatience

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• /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/
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Inherited from Middle English impacience, from Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. By surface analysis, im- + patience.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نَفَاد صَبْر (nafād ṣabr) — quality of being impatient
• Azerbaijani: səbrsizlik — quality of being impatient
• Belarusian: нецярплі́васць (njecjarplívascʹ) — quality of being impatient
• Bulgarian: нетърпеливост (netǎrpelivost) — quality of being impatient
• Catalan: impaciència — quality of being impatient
• Cebuano: kalaay — quality of being impatient
• Czech: netrpělivost — quality of being impatient
• Danish: utålmodighed — quality of being impatient
• Dutch: ongeduld — quality of being impatient
• Esperanto: malpacienco — quality of being impatient
• Finnish: kärsimättömyys — quality of being impatient
• Finnish: malttamattomuus — quality of being impatient
• French: impatience — quality of being impatient
• Georgian: მოუთმენლობა (moutmenloba) — quality of being impatient
• German: Ungeduld — quality of being impatient
• Greek: ανυπομονησία (anypomonisía) — quality of being impatient
• Hindi: अधीरता (adhīrtā) — quality of being impatient
• Hindi: उतावलापन (utāvlāpan) — quality of being impatient
• Hindi: उत्सुकता (utsuktā) — quality of being impatient
• Hungarian: türelmetlenség — quality of being impatient
• Icelandic: óþolinmæði — quality of being impatient
• Italian: impazienza — quality of being impatient
• Japanese: 焦燥 (syōsō) — quality of being impatient
• Japanese: 焦り (aseri) — quality of being impatient
• Ladino: impasiencia — quality of being impatient
• Latin: aviditās — quality of being impatient
• Latin: impatientia — quality of being impatient
• Luxembourgish: Ongedold — quality of being impatient
• Norwegian Bokmål: utålmodighet — quality of being impatient
• Norwegian Nynorsk: utolmod — quality of being impatient
• Plautdietsch: Onjedult — quality of being impatient
• Polish: niecierpliwość — quality of being impatient
• Polish: brak cierpliwości — quality of being impatient
• Portuguese: impaciência — quality of being impatient
• Romanian: nerăbdare — quality of being impatient
• Romanian: impaciență — quality of being impatient
• Russian: нетерпе́ние (neterpénije) — quality of being impatient
• Sanskrit: अक्षान्ति (akṣānti) — quality of being impatient
• Serbo-Croatian: nestrpljénje — quality of being impatient
• Serbo-Croatian: nestr̀pljivōst — quality of being impatient
• Spanish: impaciencia — quality of being impatient
• Swedish: otålighet — quality of being impatient
• Tagalog: inip — quality of being impatient
• Ukrainian: нетерпі́ння (neterpínnja) — quality of being impatient