long-sufferance

1. 1.

   patient endurance of pain or unhappiness

   Synonymslong-suffering

   Broaderendurance

Questions about long-sufferance

What does long-sufferance mean?

long-sufferance means "patient endurance of pain or unhappiness".

How many syllables are in long-sufferance?

long-sufferance has 4 syllables and divides as long--suf-fe-rance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for long-sufferance?

Close synonyms include long-suffering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.