intolerance

See also: intolérance

English

From French intolérance, from Latin intolerantia.

Morphologically in- +‎ tolerance.

intolerance (countable and uncountable, plural intolerances)

(uncountable) The state of being intolerant.
Intolerance as a state policy must not be tolerated.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
  By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
(countable) An intolerant word or action.
(countable, medicine) Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; allergy.

the state of being intolerant

Bulgarian: нетърпимост (bg) f (netǎrpimost), нетолерантност (bg) f (netolerantnost)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不寬容／不宽容 (bù kuānróng)
Czech: nesnášenlivost f
Finnish: suvaitsemattomuus (fi), intoleranssi (fi)
French: intolérance (fr) f
German: Intoleranz (de) f
Hungarian: intolerancia, türelmetlenség (hu)
Indonesian: intoleransi
Italian: intolleranza (it) f
Japanese: 不寛容 (ふかんよう, fukan'yō)
Latin: intolerantia f
Malay: intolerans
Malayalam: അസഹിഷ്ണുത (ml) (asahiṣṇuta)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: intoleranse m
Nynorsk: intoleranse m
Polish: nietolerancja (pl) f
Portuguese: intolerância (pt) f
Romanian: intoleranţă (ro) f
Russian: нетерпи́мость (ru) f (neterpímostʹ)
Sanskrit: अक्षान्ति (sa) f (akṣānti)
Spanish: intolerancia (es) f
Swedish: intolerans (sv) c
Ukrainian: нетерпи́мість f (neterpýmistʹ)

extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; allergy