Word: Tolerance
How to pronounce: ˈtɒlərəns
Noun
Definitions:
1. The ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.
Example sentences: "The tolerance of corruption"
2. The capacity to endure continued subjection to something, especially a drug, transplant, antigen, or environmental conditions, without adverse reaction.
Example sentences: "The desert camel shows the greatest tolerance to dehydration"
3. An allowable amount of variation of a specified quantity, especially in the dimensions of a machine or part.
Example sentences: "250 parts in his cars were made to tolerances of one thousandth of an inch"
Synonyms:
forbearance
broadmindedness
patience
sufferance
endurance
acceptability
tolerability
transferability
permissible
permissible limit
allowable
allowance
margin
tol
insensitivity
permissiveness
Antonyms:
intolerance
Derivations:
tolerant
tolerating
tolerable
toleration
tolerate
tolerantly
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Tolerance in Other Languages...
Spanish: Tolerancia
German: Toleranz
French: Tolérance
Italian: Tolleranza
Turkish: Tolerans
