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impatience
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability, unwillingness to wait |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anger, annoyance, ants in pants, anxiety, avidity, disquietude, eagerness, edginess, excitement, expectancy, fretfulness, haste, hastiness, heat*, impetuosity, intolerance, irritability, irritableness, nervousness, quick temper, rashness, restiveness, restlessness, shortness, snappiness, suspense, uneasiness, vehemence, violence |
| Antonyms: | control, ease, endurance, forbearance, patience, tolerance, waiting, willingness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, high hopes, hope, impatience, joy, looking forward, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust |
| Antonyms: | amazement, astonishment, doubt, fear, sensation, surprise, wonder |
| Main Entry: | eagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, anxiousness |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ambition, anticipation, ardor, avidity, earnestness, excitement, fervor, greediness, gusto, heartiness, hunger, impatience, impetuosity, intentness, keenness, longing, promptness, quickness, solicitude, thirst, vehemence, voracity, yearning, zeal, zest, zing |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | haste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme speed, hurry |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, briskness, bustle, carelessness, celerity, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, flurry, foolhardiness, hastiness, heedlessness, hurly-burly, hurriedness, hustle, hustling, impatience, impetuosity, incautiousness, nimbleness, pace, precipitancy, precipitateness, prematureness, press, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, swiftness, urgency, velocity |
| Notes: | haste is overly eager speed while hasten is to act or move at high speed |
| Antonyms: | delay, leisure, lingering, rest, slowness |
| Main Entry: | nervousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
| Synonyms: | agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, collectedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental pressure |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, alarm, albatross, anxiety, apprehensiveness, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervous tension, nervousness, oppression, overextension, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry |
| Antonyms: | indifference, relaxation |
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, grabber, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, indecisiveness, insecurity, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, tension, thriller, uncertainty, wavering |
| Antonyms: | knowledge |
| Main Entry: | temper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | angriness; bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irritability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irascibility |
| Synonyms: | anger, annoyance, impatience, irritation, peevishness |
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