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“Patience” or “Patients”

patience / patients are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

patience p·EY·sh·ah·n·s

  • noungood-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.

patients p·EY·sh·ah·n·t·s

  • nouna person who requires medical care.
Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“patience”

  • hasty or does not have patience.
  • and a great deal of patience, so was suitable for remote
  • and living expenses may lose patience and cut their student's funding.
  • the course tests a player's patience and endurance.
  • Pinafore and Patience.
  • Patience (London Magazine -October/November 2008)
  • Category:Double-deck patience card games
  • a Brahmin must inculcate: compassion, patience, lack of envy, purification, tranquility,
  • Marquise de Salusses ou la Patience de Griselidis and read to
  • surveyed his region with great patience and tenacity over a period

“patients”

  • points on the auricle were stimulated.
  • in free association, in which patients report their thoughts without reservation
  • He continued to see patients there until the terminal stages
  • Patients are encouraged to consult with
  • prevent contamination between caregivers and patients.
  • transference, the process by which patients displace onto their analysts feelings
  • this procedure most of his patients in the mid-1890s reported early
  • could be achieved by encouraging patients to talk freely, without censorship
  • of repressed memories and disturbed patients' objectivity, but by 1912, Freud
  • Some patients known by pseudonyms were Cäcilie

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