The meaning of PATIENCE is the capacity, habit, or fact of being patient. How to use patience in a sentence.

PATIENCE definition: 1. the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without…. Learn more.

Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. It takes a lot of patience to wait for your braces to come off, to deal with a toddler's temper tantrum, or to build a house out of toothpicks.

the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.

If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time. He doesn't have the patience to wait.

Definition of patience noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. patience (with somebody/something) the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining. She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider) such views.

Definition of patience noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. patience (with somebody/something) the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider) such views.