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Patience vs Abandonment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between patience and abandonment

is that patience is the quality of being patient while abandonment is the act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

As a proper noun Patience

is {{given name|female|from=English}}.

patience

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being patient.
  • Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
  • Antonyms

    * impatience

    See also

    *garden patience ----

    abandonment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
  • *
  • The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
  • Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment .
  • An abandoned building or structure.
  • High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
  • (legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
  • (legal) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
  • The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
  • A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
  • The self-surrender to an outside influence.
  • Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
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  • Synonyms

    * (careless freedom) nonchalance

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