Another word for impatience

impatience Synonyms

impatience

Irritability
fretfulness, hastiness, quick temper; see anger, annoyance 1.
Restlessness
eagerness, agitation, disquietude, anxiety; see care 2, excitement, nervousness 1, 2.

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She leaned back, unwilling to let her impatience show.
The jealousy of France and the impatience of Queen Christina were the chief causes of the inadequacy of her final recompense.
The impatience of the king and his wife gave the minister no time to mature his plans.
Impatience prompted me to telephone Ethel Reagan before the allotted hour was up.
The cousins met after an interval of twenty-three years, and Lady Hesketh was to be Cowper's good angel to the end, even though her letters disclose a considerable impatience with Mrs Unwin.

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