noun
the power or capacity to endure without complaint something difficult or disagreeable
it took a lot of patience to put up with him
Synonyms: forbearance, longanimity, long-suffering, patientness, resignation, uncomplainingness
Related Word: composure, cool, equanimity, impeturbability, self-control; endurance, sufferance, suffering, tolerance, toleration; nonresistance, passiveness, passivity, submission, submissiveness
Contrasted words: fretfulness; restiveness, restlessness; hastiness; rebellion, resistance
Antonyms: impatience