Patience

Etymology

From Latin "patientia" (endurance, suffering), from "pati" (to suffer, bear, undergo) — the same root that gives us "passion," "passive," and "compassion." The link is revealing: patience is, at root, a form of suffering, a willingness to undergo rather than resist. English took it from Old French in the thirteenth century.

noun · /PAY-shuhns/
The capacity to endure delay, difficulty, or provocation without frustration or complaint.
What it names
Reach for it to name the active discipline of waiting well — bearing what cannot yet be changed without letting it corrode you.
Example
Teaching him to read required a patience she did not know she had.
Related idea
Forbearance is patience aimed specifically at other people — restraining the urge to retaliate or rebuke. Patience is the broader endurance of time, hardship, and delay of every kind.