forbearance

Meanings

Plural: forbearances

Noun

• good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
• a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting
  • "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
• Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
• A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

Synonyms

forgiveness, longanimity, patience, restraint, thole

Antonyms

impatience

Related Words

forbear, forbearant