All forbearance synonyms

noun forbearance

• fortitude — mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously: Never once did her fortitude waver during that long illness.
• self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
• temperance — moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• abstinence — Abstinence is the practice of abstaining from something such as alcoholic drink or sex, often for health or religious reasons.
• patience — a female given name.
• moderation — the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
• resignation — the act of resigning.
• tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
• longanimity — patient endurance of hardship, injuries, or offense; forbearance.
• patient — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
• refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• leniency — the quality or state of being lenient.
• mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
• avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
• resisting — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
• endurance — The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.