Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
patience (noun)1.
the capacity, habit, or fact of being - patient (see patient)
2.
chiefly British - solitaire
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
patience (noun)the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining
SYNONIMS:
forbearance, long-suffering, sufferance, toleranceRELATED WORDS:
acquiescence, resignation; passiveness, passivity; amenability, compliance, conformism, docility, obedience, subordination, tractability, willingness; discipline, self-control; submission, submissivenessNEAR ANTONYMS:
defiance; contrariness, disobedience, insubordination, intractability, recalcitrance, resistance, willfulness