Patient vs. Patience

Patientadjective

(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

Patientadjective

Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.

Patientadjective

(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.

Patientnoun

A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.

Patientnoun

The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

Patientnoun

One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

Patientadjective

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

Patientadjective

Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.

Patientadjective

Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.

Patientadjective

Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

Patientadjective

Forbearing; long-suffering.

Patientnoun

One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

Patientnoun

A person under medical or surgical treatment; - correlative to physician or nurse.

Patientverb

To compose, to calm.

Patientnoun

a person who requires medical care;

Patientnoun

the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

Patientadjective

enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance;

Patientadjective

enduring without protest or complaint

Patient

A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, psychologist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.

Patiencenoun

The quality of being patient.

Patiencenoun

Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. card game.

Patiencenoun

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.

Patiencenoun

The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.

Patiencenoun

Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.

Patiencenoun

Sufferance; permission.

Patiencenoun

A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

Patiencenoun

Solitaire.

Patiencenoun

good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Patiencenoun

a card game played by one person

Patience

Patience (or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties.