tolerance
The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
Other meanings
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.
Resistance to drunkenness.
Related words
- Byzantine fault tolerance
- paradox of tolerance
- zero tolerance
- pseudotolerance
- aerotolerance
- autotolerance
- barotolerance
- chaotolerance
- chronotolerance
- crosstolerance
- cryotolerance
- halotolerance
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "tolerance".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tolerance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.