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