TOLERANCE

Tolerance

Tolerance or toleration is a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.

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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.


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