Patience vs. Endurance

Patiencenoun

The quality of being patient.

Endurancenoun

The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.

‘He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.’;

Patiencenoun

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

Endurancenoun

Ability to endure hardship.

Patiencenoun

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.

‘Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering.’; ‘I must have patience to endure the load.’; ‘Who hath learned lowlinessFrom his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross.’;

Endurancenoun

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

‘Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession.’;

Patiencenoun

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

‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.’;

Endurancenoun

The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

‘Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.’;

Patiencenoun

Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.

‘He learned with patience, and with meekness taught.’;

Endurancenoun

the power to withstand hardship or stress;

‘the marathon tests a runner's endurance’;

Patiencenoun

Sufferance; permission.

‘They stay upon your patience.’;

Endurancenoun

a state of surviving; remaining alive

Patiencenoun

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

Endurance

Endurance (also related to sufferance, resilience, constitution, fortitude, and hardiness) is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue. It is usually used in aerobic or anaerobic exercise.

Patiencenoun

Solitaire.

Patiencenoun

good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Patiencenoun

a card game played by one person

Patience

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.