forbearance

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Noun forbearance has 2 senses

patience, forbearance, longanimity - good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
--₁ is a kind of good nature
forbearance - a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
--₂ is a kind of delay, holdup

Derived form: verb forbear₁

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