tolerance
See also: tolérance
English
Etymology
From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɒləɹəns/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
tolerance (countable and uncountable, plural tolerances)
- (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. [from 18th c.]
- 2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine:
- Both [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky and [David] Ben-Gurion also wrote songs of praise to the Ottoman Empire, its tolerance toward ethnic minorities in general — and to Jews in particular — as well as to the democratic changes it was undergoing.
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- (uncountable) 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. [from 19th c.]
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]
- Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.]
Antonyms
- intolerance
Hyponyms
- (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance
Derived terms
- pseudotolerance
Related terms
- tolerability
- tolerable
- tolerant
- tolerate
- toleration
Translations
ability to endure pain or hardship — See also translations at endurance
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ability or practice of tolerating
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ability of the body to resist the action of a poison or infection
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permitted deviation from standard
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ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection
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References
- tolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- tolerance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- tolerance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- tolerance at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- coeternal, neorectal
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtolɛrant͡sɛ]
Noun
tolerance f
- tolerance (the ability or practice of tolerating)
- tolerance (permitted deviation from standard)
Related terms
- toleranční
- tolerantní
- tolerovat
Further reading
- tolerance in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- tolerance in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989