Calm vs. Patience — What's the Difference?

Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions

Patience (or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties.

(of the weather) pleasantly free from wind

The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient

The absence of strong emotions; calm feelings

Chiefly British, Games Solitaire.

The absence of wind

The quality of being patient.

Make (someone) tranquil and quiet; soothe

Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.

Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.

Not excited or agitated; composed

The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.

An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.

Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.

A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1 knot (1.15 miles per hour; 1.9 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.

Sufferance; permission.

Tranquility or serenity

A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

To make or become calm or quiet

Solitaire.

(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.

A card game played by one person

(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.

Without wind or storm.

(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.

A period of time without wind.

(transitive) To make calm.

(intransitive) To become calm.

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.

To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.

Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.

Steadiness of mind under stress;

Make calm or still;

Make steady;

Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation;

Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;

Not agitated; without losing self-possession;

Characterized by absence of emotional agitation;

(of weather) free from storm or wind;

Marked by freedom from agitation or excitement;