Patient & Patience?

Question:Is both Patient & Patience have same meaning ?

Answers:
Patient may refer to:

Patient, any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment

Patient: Capable of waiting: able to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset.
Capable of persevering: able to persevere calmly, especially when faced with difficulties


Patience:
Capacity for waiting: the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties
I was beginning to run out of patience.
no...these are called homonyms

patients are people that doctors take care of
patience is what you have when you have to wait in a long line

others are plain and plane, bare and bear, and the list goes on
No.
Patient can mean both things
either referring to a person checked in a hospital
or referring to an attitude which is waiting for a long time

Patience also refers to the attitude of having to wait for a long time but is fine about it
No.

A patient is someone confined in a hospital. (Like a doctor's patient)

Patience connects to the word "temper".

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