patience

Other forms of patience

plural

patiences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about patience

What does patience mean?

patience means "good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in patience?

patience has 2 syllables: pa-tience. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪʃəns/.

What is another word for patience?

Close synonyms include forbearance, longanimity, solitaire. 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.

What is the opposite of patience?

The recorded antonyms are impatience.

Is patience a common word?

patience is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with patience?

1 word rhymes with patience. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.