IMPATIENCE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for IMPATIENCE?

Need another word that means the same as “impatience”? Find 22 synonyms and 30 related words for “impatience” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Impatience” are: restlessness, restiveness, frustration, agitation, nervousness, edginess, jitteriness, excitability, irritability, testiness, tetchiness, irascibility, querulousness, peevishness, intolerance, disgruntlement, exasperation, annoyance, pique, discontent, dissatisfaction, displeasure

Impatience as a Noun

Definitions of "Impatience" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “impatience” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A restless desire for change and excitement.
• A lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay.
• A dislike of anything that causes delay.
• The tendency to be impatient; irritability or restlessness.

Synonyms of "Impatience" as a noun (22 Words)

agitation	A state of agitation or turbulent change or development. Widespread agitation for social reform.
annoyance	The feeling or state of being annoyed; irritation. He turned his charm on Tara much to Hegarty s annoyance.
discontent	Dissatisfaction with one’s circumstances; lack of contentment. The cause attracted a motley crew of discontents and zealots.
disgruntlement	A feeling of sulky discontent. The survey pointed to widespread disgruntlement over recent pay rises.
displeasure	The feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something. He started hanging around the local pubs much to the displeasure of his mother.
dissatisfaction	The feeling of being displeased and discontent. Widespread public dissatisfaction with incumbent politicians.
edginess	Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable.
exasperation	Actions that cause great irritation (or even anger. She rolled her eyes in exasperation.
excitability	Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part.
frustration	An event or circumstance that causes one to feel frustrated. The frustration of their wishes.
intolerance	An inability to eat a food or take a drug without adverse effects. His intolerance of interruptions.
irascibility	A feeling of resentful anger.
irritability	A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger. Symptoms include insomnia and irritability.
jitteriness	The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters.
nervousness	The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters. There was a trace of nervousness in his voice.
peevishness	An irritable petulant feeling.
pique	A feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one’s pride. He left in a fit of pique.
querulousness	The quality of being given to complaining.
restiveness	Characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright.
restlessness	The quality of being ceaselessly moving or active. Her husband s nocturnal restlessness.
testiness	Feeling easily irritated.
tetchiness	Feeling easily irritated.

Usage Examples of "Impatience" as a noun

• He was shifting in his seat with impatience.
• She crumpled up the pages in a burst of impatience.

Associations of "Impatience" (30 Words)

agitated	Feeling or appearing troubled or nervous. The agitated mixture foamed and bubbled.
anxiety	(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic. The housekeeper s eager anxiety to please.
apprehensive	Relating to perception or understanding. Apprehensive for one s life.
aroused	Aroused to action. The aroused opposition.
awkwardness	The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment. The awkwardness of youth.
dejection	A state of melancholy depression. He was slumped in deep dejection.
excitability	Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part.
febrile	Having or showing the symptoms of a fever. A febrile reaction caused by an allergen.
feverish	Marked by intense agitation or emotion. Worked at a feverish pace.
fraught	Marked by distress. Marketing any new product is fraught with danger.
insecurity	The state of being open to danger or threat; lack of protection. Growing job insecurity.
jittery	Being in a tense state. Caffeine makes me jittery.
manic	Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason- H.W.Carter. Manic patients.
moodiness	Having temperamental and changeable moods.
nervous	Of or relating to the nervous system. He s nervous of speaking in public.
nervously	In an anxiously nervous manner. Kevin nervously glanced at his watch.
nervy	Easily agitated or alarmed; nervous. He was nervy and on edge.
neurosis	(in non-technical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession. Freud s two stage account of neurosis.
peevish	Easily irritated or annoyed. A thin peevish voice.
phobic	Suffering from irrational fears. A snake phobic.
slump	Fall or sink heavily. She slumped against the cushions.
solicitude	A feeling of excessive concern. I was touched by his solicitude.
strained	Of a mainly liquid substance having been strained to separate out any solid matter. A strained smile.
stressed	Strengthened by the application of stress during manufacture prestressed. Stressed workers reported smoking more.
temper	Make more temperate acceptable or suitable by adding something else moderate. His temper sparked like damp firewood.
tense	Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. Tense piano strings.
troubled	Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination. Fell into a troubled sleep.
uneasy	Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance. She lived in a state of uneasy truce with her strict father.
uptight	Anxious or angry in a tense and overly controlled way. He is so uptight about everything.
worried	Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief. Not used to a city and worried about small things.