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Impatience vs Indecision - What's the difference?

impatience | indecision |

As nouns the difference between impatience and indecision

is that impatience is the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something while indecision is the inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist.

impatience

English

Noun

  • The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

    • Antonyms

    * patience * haste

    indecision

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist.
  • * 1903 , , chapter 21:
    • There was no indecision or delay in the establishment of their relations; Rebecca's heart flew like an arrow to its mark, and her mind, meeting its superior, settled at once into an abiding attitude of respectful homage.

    Synonyms

    * (inability to decide) indecisiveness