Synonyms of patience

patience

noun

ˈpā-shən(t)s 

as in tolerance

the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining

the teacher's patience is being sorely tested this year by several parents who seem to have no interest in their children's education

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tolerance
• willingness
• forbearance
• discipline
• long-suffering
• obedience
• sufferance
• acquiescence
• resignation
• docility
• subordination
• passivity
• compliance
• submissiveness
• submission
• passiveness
• tractability
• self-control
• amenability
• conformism

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• impatience
• defiance
• resistance
• disobedience
• insubordination
• willfulness
• recalcitrance
• intractability
• contrariness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of patience

What’s happened since then is almost a case study in what successful organizational patience — and failing organizational impatience — looks like. —John Hollinger, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025

After changing positions in college at Auburn and being selected in the fifth round of the 2021 draft, Sherwood’s success story shows that hard work and patience can genuinely pay off. —Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2025

Since then, however, the Thunder’s patience has been even more notable. —John Hollinger, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025

This increased emotional self-regulation can help parents respond to children’s tantrums with greater patience, helping prevent escalating the situation and modeling a healthy response to uncomfortable events. —Michelle Stansbury, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025