0 the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed: --
Patience - they'll be here soon!
Their youngest son was beginning to try my patience (= annoy me).
Making small-scale models takes/requires a great deal of patience.
He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils.
You have to have such a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids.
1 a game played with cards by one person --
2 the ability to accept delay, suffering, or annoyance without complaining or becoming angry: --
Also, when the questions become more complex and involve many databanks, assembly of the data needed exceeds the skill and patience of most biologists.
So too would cheerfulness and patience in the face of absolute disaster.
Patience is a personality trait + an attribute or ability.
However, the road to fruitful negotiations with public institutions is often long and winding, and must be traveled with patience.
Their patience, however, frayed as the arrearages came to be measured in years rather than months.
The value of patience has to be added to the discounted value of the consumption string.
Consider that with tolerance and patience, we godly demons may breed a noble world in a few hundred generations or so.
It risks being boring and trying the audience's patience, but succeeds in drawing humour from a blend of anticipation and surprise.
