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| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, forbearance, fortitude, grit*, guts*, heart, humility, intestinal fortitude*, leniency, long-suffering, moderation, moxie*, passiveness, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch*, staying power*, stoicism, submission, tolerance, yielding, even temper, gutsiness, imperturbability, legs, longanimity, nonresistance, passivity, sufferance, toleration |
| Notes: | patience means the capacity to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming angry or upset; patients are people who requires medical care |
| Antonyms: | agitation, frustration, impatience, intolerance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quietness, composure |
| Synonyms: | calmness, doldrums, hush, lull, patience, peace, peace of mind, quiet, repose, rest, restraint, serenity, silence, stillness, stoicism, tranquility, dispassion, impassivity, imperturbation, peacefulness, placidity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, anger, madness, restlessness, terror, turbulence, violence, storminess |
| Main Entry: | equanimity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | levelheadedness |
| Synonyms: | aplomb, assurance, calm, calmness, composure, confidence, cool, coolness, detachment, patience, peace, poise, presence of mind*, sangfroid, self-possession, serenity, ataraxia, ataraxy, equability, imperturbability, phlegm, placidity, steadiness, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, alarm, anxiety, upset, worry, discomposure, excitableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forbearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resisting, avoidance |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, endurance, fortitude, moderation, patience, resignation, restraint, self-control, temperance, tolerance, going easy on, living with, longanimity, patientness, refraining |
| Antonyms: | continuation, indulgence, involvement, use, pursual |
| Main Entry: | fortitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength of mind; guts |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, boldness, bravery, constancy, courage, determination, endurance, firmness, grit*, hardihood, heart, mettle, moxie, nerve, patience, perseverance, pith, pluck, resolution, spine*, spirit, spunk, stamina, starch, staying power, stomach, tenacity, valor, braveness, courageousness, dauntlessness, fearlessness, gutsiness, intrepidity, resoluteness, stick-to-itiveness, stoutheartedness, true grit, valiancy, valorousness, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, helplessness, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
| Synonyms: | allowance, appeasement, attention, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, intemperance, kindness, leniency, partiality, patience, pleasing, privilege, satisfaction, service, tolerance, understanding, babying, coddling, favoring, fondling, immoderation, intemperateness, kowtowing, lenience, pampering, permissiveness, petting, placating, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, spoiling, toadying, toleration, treating |
| Antonyms: | abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | moderation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temperance |
| Synonyms: | balance, calmness, composure, constraint, coolness, equanimity, fairness, forbearance, golden mean, justice, measure, mildness, patience, poise, quiet, restraint, sobriety, dispassionateness, judiciousness, justness, lenity, moderateness, reasonableness, sedateness, sedation, steadiness, toleration |
| Antonyms: | extreme, indulgence, intemperance, intensity, severity, violence, outrageousness, unlimitedness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | presence of mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coolheadedness |
| Synonyms: | calm, coolness, patience, clearheadedness |
| Main Entry: | serenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calm, peacefulness |
| Synonyms: | calmness, composure, cool, patience, peace, peace of mind, stillness, placidity, quietness, quietude, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, disruption, disturbance, excitement, trouble |
| Main Entry: | calmness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quietness |
| Synonyms: | calm, composure, patience, peace, tranquility |
| Main Entry: | stoicism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impassivity |
| Synonyms: | endurance, indifference, patience, sobriety, passivity |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
| Synonyms: | ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, fortitude, grit, guts, heart*, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch*, strength, submission, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, vitality, will, forebearance, gutsiness, holding up, pertinacity, sufferance, toleration, undergoing, withstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, involvement, judgment, know-how*, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, forebearance, inwardness, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kindness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compassion, generosity |
| Synonyms: | affection, altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, delicacy, fellow feeling, forbearance, gentleness, good will, goodness, grace, heart, helpfulness, hospitality, humanity, indulgence, magnanimity, mildness, patience, philanthropy, solicitude, sweetness, sympathy, tact, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness, amiability, beneficence, good intention, graciousness, kindliness, serviceability, solicitousness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, meanness |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | open-mindedness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, concession, endurance, forbearance, freedom, good will, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, license, magnanimity, mercy, patience, permission, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, broad-mindedness, lenience, lenity, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, mercifulness, permissiveness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | bias, disapproval, intolerance, prejudice, narrow-mindedness |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | open-mindedness |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, endurance, good will, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, patience, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, charitableness, generousness, lenity, toleration |
| Antonyms: | bias, bigotry, disapproval, intolerance, prejudice |
| Main Entry: | industry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | activity, application, attention, care, determination, diligence, effort, energy, enterprise, labor, patience, perseverance, persistence, toil, vigor, zeal, assiduity, dynamism, intentness, inventiveness, pains, tirelessness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy, worthlessness, unemployment |
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endurance, passivity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acquiescence, compliance, conformity, deference, forbearing, fortitude, humility, meekness, modesty, patience, submission, docility, humbleness, longanimity, lowliness, nonresistance, patientness, resignedness, submissiveness, sufferance |
| Antonyms: | impatience, intolerance, resistance |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortitude, grit |
| Synonyms: | endurance, guts*, opposition, patience, resilience, resistance, stamina, staying power*, strength, vigor, hardiness, hardness, steadfastness, steadiness, sufferance, toughness |
| Antonyms: | intolerance, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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