焦燥(しょうそう)

A formal, literary word for restless, anxious impatience: the feeling that something must happen soon and is not happening.

Common patterns

• 焦燥感(しょうそうかん): sense of impatience/frustration (the most common form)
• 焦燥(しょうそう)に駆(か)られる: to be driven by impatience
• 焦燥(しょうそう)に苛(さいな)まれる: to be tormented by frustration
• 焦燥(しょうそう)を感(かん)じる: to feel frustrated/impatient
• 焦燥(しょうそう)の色(いろ)を見(み)せる: to show signs of impatience

Similar words

• 焦(あせ)り: the everyday word for the same feeling of being rushed; 焦燥(しょうそう) is its written counterpart
• 苛立(いらだ)ち: irritation at something annoying, without the sense of time running out