Patience is the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or tosuffer without complaining or becoming annoyed:
You have to have such a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids.
In the end I lost my patience and shouted at her.
He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils.
Making small-scale models takes/requires a great deal of patience.
Their youngest son was beginning to try my patience (= annoy me).
Patience - they'll be here soon!