Tolerance

Noun

 * 1)  The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
 * 2)  The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
 * 3)  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)  The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
 * 5)  The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

Antonyms

 * intolerance

Related terms

 * tolerability
 * tolerable
 * tolerant
 * tolerate
 * toleration

Adjectives for Tolerance
kindly; legal; habitual; courteous; lazy contemptuous; scientific; moral; apathetic easygoing; amused; mischievous; indolent gentle.

Verbs for Tolerance
acclaim—; achieve—; advocate—; bear with —; breed—; cherish—; commend—; exemplify—; exhort—; foster—; further— lack—; nurture—; preach—; preserve— regard with—; sustain—; temper with— —ameliorates; —pervades.

Thesaurus
a habit, acceptance, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, addiction, admissibility, admission, alcoholism, allowance, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, ample scope, approximation, assimilation, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, benevolence, blank check, broad-mindedness, carte blanche, chain smoking, charitableness, charity, chronic alcoholism, clearance, clemency, clementness, cocainism, compassion, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, condonation, connivance, coverage, crash, craving, dependence, deviation, dipsomania, disregard, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, easiness, easygoingness, elbowroom, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, endurance, envisagement, exhaustiveness, field, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortitude, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, free thought, freethinking, full scope, full swing, generousness, gentleness, grit, guts, habituation, humaneness, humanity, immunity, imperviousness, imprecision, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inclusion, inclusiveness, incorporation, incorrectness, indulgence, inexactitude, inexactness, insensitivity, kindness, latitude, latitudinarianism, laxity, laxness, leeway, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarianism, libertinism, long rope, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, looseness, magnanimity, maneuvering space, margin, membership, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderateness, negligence, nicotine addiction, no holds barred, open space, open-mindedness, openness, opposition, overlooking, participation, patience, patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, physical dependence, pity, play, predictable error, probable error, psychological dependence, range, reception, resistance, room, rope, scope, sea room, self-control, softness, space, stamina, standard deviation, steadfastness, steadiness, stoicism, strength, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, swing, tenderness, toleration, unbigotedness, uncorrectness, unfactualness, unpreciseness, unrevengefulness, unrigorousness, variation, vigor, waiting game, waiting it out, way, whole, wide berth, winking, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

Etymology
From tolérance: <  tolerantia: < tolerans:, present participle of  tolero:.

Translations

 * Bengali: সহন
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 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: సహనం (sahanam)


 * Bengali: ক্ষমা
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 寬容, 宽容
 * Czech: ,
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 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 寛容
 * Lithuanian: apykanta
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: терпимость,
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: సహనం (sahanam)


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 * Greek:
 * Russian: допуск
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Anagrams

 * coeternal