| NOUN | attribute | forbearance, patience, longanimity | good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence |
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| act | forbearance | a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges |
| Sounds | faorbeh'rahns | |
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| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 267 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence. | |
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| Synonyms | patience, longanimity | |
| Broader | good nature | A cheerful, obliging disposition |
| Opposite | impatience | A dislike of anything that causes delay |
| Catalan | paciència, tolerància | |
| Spanish | paciencia, tolerancia | |
| Meaning | A delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting. | |
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| Example | "his forbearance to reply was alarming" | |
| Broader | delay, holdup | The act of delaying |
| Verbs | forbear | resist doing something |