LONGANIMITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does longanimity mean? 

• LONGANIMITY (noun)
  The noun LONGANIMITY has 1 sense:

1. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

  Familiarity information: LONGANIMITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONGANIMITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

forbearance; longanimity; patience

Hypernyms ("longanimity" is a kind of...):

good nature (a cheerful, obliging disposition)

Derivation:

longanimous (showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment)