noun, feminine/pa.sjɑ̃s/plural: patiences
patience (the quality of being patient)
“Il faut beaucoup de patience pour apprendre une nouvelle langue.” — Learning a new language requires a lot of patience.
Antonyms: impatience
Related: perdre patience, prendre son mal en patience
Inherited from Middle French patience, from Old French pacience (modern English patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”).