different between impatience vs impetuous
impatience
English
Etymology
From Old French impacience (modern French impatience), from Latin impatientia. Synchronically analyzable as im- +? patience.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?pe???ns/
- Hyphenation: im?pa?tience
Noun
impatience (countable and uncountable, plural impatiences)
- The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
Antonyms
- patience
- haste
Related terms
- impassivity
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.pa.sj??s/
Noun
impatience f (plural impatiences)
- impatience
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impetuous
English
Etymology
From Middle English impetuous, from Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetu?sus (“violent”), from Latin impetus (“attack, violence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /im?p?t?u?s/
Adjective
impetuous (comparative more impetuous, superlative most impetuous)
- Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner.
- 1880, John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, "Beethoven, Louis Van":
- But it was natural, that the impetuous, restless young artist should incline more to excess of strength than of delicacy in his playing.
- 1880, John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, "Beethoven, Louis Van":
- Characterized by sudden violence or vehemence.
- 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, vol. II, chapter I:
- He stands, and views in the faint rays
Far, far below, the torrent's rising surge,
And listens to the wild impetuous roar
- He stands, and views in the faint rays
- 1917 rev. 1925, Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
- Unsheathed the narrow sword,
- I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead ...
- 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, vol. II, chapter I:
Synonyms
- impulsive
- hasty
- rash
- hotheaded
Derived terms
- impetuously
- impetuousness
Translations
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