Enduring vs Patient - What's the difference?
enduring | patient |
endurance
* 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
Content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
* Sir Isaac Newton
(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
* Bishop Fell
A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
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(linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
* Gov. of Tongue
As nouns the difference between enduring and patient
is that enduring is endurance while patient is patient, someone who receives therapeutic treatment.As an adjective enduring
is long-lasting.As a verb enduring
is .enduring
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise
Anagrams
*patient
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Be patient : your friends will arrive in a few hours.
- patient endeavour
- Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
- patient of severest toil and hardship
Synonyms
* composedAntonyms
* impatient * antsyDerived terms
* patientlyNoun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
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- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient .
