Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. It takes a lot of patience to wait for your braces to come off, to deal with a toddler's temper tantrum, or to build a house out of toothpicks.
PATIENCE meaning: 1. the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without…. Learn more.
Definition of patience noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. patience (with somebody/something) the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining. She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider) such views.
If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example, when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do.
Patience involves patience or tolerance in the face of delay, provocation, [2] or stress [3] without responding negatively, such as reacting with disrespect or anger.
The meaning of PATIENCE is the capacity, habit, or fact of being patient. How to use patience in a sentence.
Those people have been waiting for hours, and they're starting to run out of patience. = They're starting to lose patience. After 10 long weeks, his patience was rewarded. [=he got what he wanted after waiting 10 weeks for it]
If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do. He doesn't have the patience to wait. It was exacting work and required all his patience.