different between yearning vs impatient
yearning
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?j?n??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?j??n??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n??
- Hyphenation: yearn?ing
Etymology 1
From Middle English yerning, from Old English ?ierning, ?ierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijan?, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-jan?, from Proto-Indo-European *??er- (“to yearn for”).
Noun
yearning (plural yearnings)
- A wistful or melancholy longing.
- She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
Related terms
- yearn
Translations
Verb
yearning
- Present participle and gerund of yearn.
Etymology 2
From earlier yerning, from Middle English yernyng, erning, renning. From Old English rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by Middle English yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), Old English iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r?-néw-ti, from *h?er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.
Noun
yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)
- (Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
Related terms
- yearn
- earn
- rennet
Anagrams
- renaying
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impatient
English
Etymology
From Old French impacient (modern French impatient), from Latin impati?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?pe???nt/
- Hyphenation: im?pa?tient
Adjective
impatient (comparative more impatient, superlative most impatient)
- Restless and intolerant of delays.
- The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him.
- Anxious and eager, especially to begin something.
- (obsolete) Not to be borne; unendurable.
- Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. ii. 287:
- What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?
- 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. ii. 287:
Derived terms
- impatiently
- impatience
- impassive
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.pa.sj??/
Adjective
impatient (feminine singular impatiente, masculine plural impatients, feminine plural impatientes)
- impatient
Noun
impatient m (plural impatients, feminine impatiente)
- impatient person
Further reading
- “impatient” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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