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    impatience
    im‧pa‧tience /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/ noun [uncountable]
     Word Family: noun: patience ≠ impatience, patient; adverb: patiently ≠ impatiently; adjective: patient ≠ impatient
    1. annoyance at having to accept delays, other people’s weaknesses etc
       OPP  patience
        impatience with
        his impatience with the slowness of bureaucratic procedures
        A note of impatience had entered his voice.
    2. great eagerness for something to happen, especially something that is going to happen soon
        impatience to do something
        She was bursting with impatience to tell Natalia what had happened.