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patience/patients

pa·tience (pā'shəns)

Noun

    • The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.

pa·tient (pā'shənt)

Adjective

    • Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.
    • Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.
    • Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly patient leader and guide.
    • Persevering; constant: With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
    • Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.

Noun

    • One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.

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