Noun: impatiency
Sample Sentences
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I am a most unhappy creature, proceeded he; unhappy from a strange impatiency of spirit, which I cannot conquer. [1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like impatiency
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin impatientia + -ency. See: Latin Nouns '
impatientia'.