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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

impaciência

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ĩ.pa.siˈẽ.sjɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Impatience/ɪmˈpeɪ.ʃəns/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3400 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele demonstrou muita impaciência com o atraso."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The tendency to be easily annoyed by someone's mistakes or because you have to wait.

    "He tapped his foot with impatience as he waited for the train."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'impatientia', formed from the prefix 'im-' (not) combined with 'patientia' (patience, endurance). Entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, it originally referred to an inability to endure hardship or pain before expanding to denote restlessness and eagerness.

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