Noun forbearance has 2 senses
  1. patience, forbearance, longanimity - good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
    --1 is a kind of good nature
  2. 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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