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What does impatience mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
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This sense of failure in turn leads to the expression of impatience and anger toward the bereaved person.
We usually get there early and sit around waiting for ages to soundcheck, my stomach gently knotting and unknotting with impatience.
I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.
In nineteenth-century France, artists of high ambition sometimes expressed impatience with easel painting.
For a second I thought he was going to hit me, his eyes were flashing with anger and impatience.

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