'Forbearance' definitions:
Definition of 'forbearance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn: patience, forbearance, longanimity] [ant: impatience]
noun
A delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
Definition of 'Forbearance'
From: GCIDE
- Forbearance \For*bear"ance\, n. The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. [1913 Webster]
- He soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance ere day end. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. [1913 Webster]
- Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goes slower. --Shak.
- Syn: Abstinence; refraining; lenity; mildness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'forbearance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandonment,
- abeyance,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnegation,
- acceptance,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- benevolence,
- cessation,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- circumvention,
- clemency,
- clementness,
- cold storage,
- commiseration,
- compassion,
- condolence,
- condonation,
- constraint,
- defense mechanism,
- denial,
- desistance,
- discontinuance,
- disregard,
- dodge,
- duck,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- endurance,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- favor,
- feeling,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- forgiveness,
- forgivingness,
- fortitude,
- frugality,
- generousness,
- gentleness,
- getting around,
- golden mean,
- grace,
- humaneness,
- humanity,
- indulgence,
- jink,
- kindness,
- laxness,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- lenientness,
- lenity,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- magnanimity,
- mercifulness,
- mercy,
- mildness,
- mitigation,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- neutrality,
- nonexercise,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nothing in excess,
- overlooking,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- permissiveness,
- perseverance,
- pity,
- prevention,
- quarter,
- refraining,
- relief,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- reprieve,
- resignation,
- restraint,
- ruth,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-pity,
- self-restraint,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- softness,
- sophrosyne,
- stoicism,
- sufferance,
- suspension,
- sweet reasonableness,
- sympathy,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- tenderness,
- the runaround,
- thoughtful,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- uncomplainingness,
- unrevengefulness,
- waiting game,
- waiting it out,
- waiver,
- zigzag