Definitions for tolerance
ˈtɒl ər ənstol·er·ance

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.7 / 3 votes

1. tolerancenoun

   the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions

2. permissiveness, tolerancenoun

   a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

3. tolerancenoun

   the act of tolerating something

4. tolerancenoun

   willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others

5. allowance, leeway, margin, tolerancenoun

   a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. tolerancenoun

   The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

2. tolerancenoun

   The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.

3. tolerancenoun

   The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.

4. tolerancenoun

   The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.

5. tolerancenoun

   The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tolerancenoun

   Power of enduring; act of enduring.

   Etymology: tolerantia, Lat. tolerance, Fr.

   Diogenes one frosty morning came into the market-place shaking, to shew his tolerance; many of the people came about him, pitying him: Plato passing by, and knowing he did it to be seen, said, if you pity him indeed, let him alone to himself. Francis Bacon, Apophth.

   There wants nothing but consideration of our own eternal weal, a tolerance or endurance of being made happy here, and blessed eternally. Henry Hammond, Fundamentals.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tolerance

   Tolerance or toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tolerance

   Tolerance refers to the acceptance, understanding, and respect for differences among people. It can refer to varying perspectives, beliefs, practices, or physical appearances. Tolerance also refers to the ability to withstand or endure something, such as in medicine, where it may refer to the body's ability to withstand a substance or the effects of a drug, or in engineering, where it refers to the degree of variation acceptable in a physical dimension.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.8 / 5 votes

1. Tolerancenoun

   the power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance

2. Tolerancenoun

   the endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration

3. Tolerancenoun

   the power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tolerance

   An agreement to tolerate intolerance.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. tolerance

   The act, fact, ability and quality of being tolerant.

   Tolerance is easy to learn, you just keep practicing and then you realize we are all equal in every way.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 19, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Allowance
   • Attitude
   • Divergence
   • Endurance
   • Temperament

Anagrams for tolerance »

1. coeternal

2. antrocele

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tolerance in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tolerance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tolerance in a Sentence

1. Mak Chin-ho:

   The police have zero tolerance for violent acts.

2. Woodrow Wilson:

   Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

3. Malcolm Forbes:

   Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

4. Elie Wiesel:

   There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

5. Michael Kitces:

   We're defaulting millennials 90 percent into stocks without ever finding out what their tolerance for risk might be.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tolerance
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tolerance
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=tolerance
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerance
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tolerance
7. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=tolerance