| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
Synonyms: |
backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, even temper, forbearance, fortitude, grit, guts*, gutsiness, heart, humility, imperturbability, intestinal fortitude, legs, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, moderation, moxie*, nonresistance, passiveness, passivity, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch, staying power, stoicism, submission, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, yielding |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quietness, composure |
Synonyms: |
calmness, dispassion, doldrums, hush, impassivity, imperturbation, lull, patience, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, repose, rest, restraint, serenity, silence, stillness, stoicism, tranquility |
Antonyms: |
agitation, anger, madness, restlessness, storminess, terror, turbulence, violence |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
Synonyms: |
ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, forebearance, fortitude, grit, guts, gutsiness, heart*, holding up, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch, strength, submission, sufferance, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, toleration, undergoing, vitality, will, withstanding |
| Main Entry: | equanimity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | levelheadedness |
Synonyms: |
aplomb, assurance, ataraxia, ataraxy, calm, calmness, composure, confidence, cool, coolness, detachment, equability, imperturbability, patience, peace, phlegm, placidity, poise, presence of mind, sangfroid, self-possession, serenity, steadiness, tranquillity |
Antonyms: |
agitation, alarm, anxiety, discomposure, excitableness, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | forbearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resisting, avoidance |
Synonyms: |
abstinence, endurance, fortitude, going easy on, living with, longanimity, moderation, patience, patientness, refraining, resignation, restraint, self-control, temperance, tolerance |
Antonyms: |
continuation, indulgence, involvement, pursual, use |
| Main Entry: | fortitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength of mind; guts |
Synonyms: |
backbone*, boldness, braveness, bravery, constancy, courage, courageousness, dauntlessness, determination, endurance, fearlessness, firmness, grit, gutsiness, hardihood, heart, intrepidity, mettle, moxie, nerve, patience, perseverance, pith, pluck, resoluteness, resolution, spine, spirit, spunk, stamina, starch, staying power, stick-to-itiveness, stomach, stoutheartedness, tenacity, true grit, valiancy, valor, valorousness, what it takes |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, helplessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
Synonyms: |
allowance, appeasement, attention, babying, coddling, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, favoring, fondling, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness, kindness, kowtowing, lenience, leniency, pampering, partiality, patience, permissiveness, petting, placating, pleasing, privilege, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, satisfaction, service, spoiling, toadying, tolerance, toleration, treating, understanding |
Antonyms: |
abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | industry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
Synonyms: |
activity, application, assiduity, attention, care, determination, diligence, dynamism, effort, energy, enterprise, intentness, inventiveness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, tirelessness, toil, vigor, zeal |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
Antonyms: |
idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy, unemployment, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | kindness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compassion, generosity |
Synonyms: |
affection, altruism, amiability, beneficence, benevolence, charity, clemency, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, delicacy, fellow feeling, forbearance, gentleness, good intention, good will, goodness, grace, graciousness, heart, helpfulness, hospitality, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, magnanimity, mildness, patience, philanthropy, serviceability, solicitousness, solicitude, sweetness, sympathy, tact, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness |
Antonyms: |
cruelty, harshness, meanness |