tolerance
UK/ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns//ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
tolerance noun: the ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
Noun
tolerance (countable and uncountable, plural tolerances)
- The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
- The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- Near-synonym: forbearance
- 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.2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine
- Synonyms:
- toleration, forbearance
- 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.
- Since he hadn't had any alcohol in years, his tolerance was very low, and it only took two drinks for him to get sloshed.
- Resistance to drunkenness.
- The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
- The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
Verb
tolerance (third-person singular simple present tolerances, present participle tolerancing, simple past and past participle toleranced)
tolerance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tolerance in Hindi
- tolerance, bearing; suffering
- बर्दाश्त bardāśt
tolerance in Tamil
- பொறுமை, பொறுத்தல், பொறுதி, சகிப்புத் தன்மை
tolerance in Marathi
- सहिष्णुता, सहनशीलता
tolerance in Urdu
- tolerance
- صبر sabr, برداشت bardāśt
More languagesFewer languages
- tolerance in Bengali
- সহন śohon, ক্ষমা khoma
- tolerance in Telugu
- సహనం sahanaṁ
- tolerance in Malayalam
- സഹിഷ്ണുത sahiṣṇuta
- tolerance in Kannada
- ತಾಳ್ಮೆ, ತಾಳಿಕೆ, ಸಹನೆ, ಸೈರಣೆ
- tolerance in Punjabi
- صبر sabăr, ਸਬਰ sabar
- tolerance in Gujarati
- સહિષ્ણુતા, સહનશીલતા
- tolerance in Odia
- ସହନଶୀଳତା, ସହିଷ୍ଣୁତା
- tolerance in Sanskrit
- सहन sahana
- tolerance in Nepali
- सहिष्णुता, सहनशीलता
- tolerance in Arabic
- تَحَمُّل taḥammul, تَسَامُح tasāmuḥ
- tolerance in Indonesian
- toleransi, tenggang rasa, tasamuh
- tolerance in Persian
- بردباری bordbâri, تاوندگی tāvandegi, مدارامنشی modârâ-maneši, رواداری ravâdâri
Examples of tolerance in a sentence
- Flexibility is good, but a tolerance for mediocrity carried far enough impairs operational capacity.
- Grinding sometimes involves tight tolerances on the order of a few microns.
- We manufacture these parts to a very high tolerance.
Synonyms of tolerance
Antonyms
Forms of tolerance
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tolerances |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tolerances |
| present participle | tolerancing |
| past participle | toleranced |
| past | toleranced |
Origin of tolerance
Inherited from Middle English toleraunce, borrowed from Old French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerāns, present participle of, and participial adjective from Latin tolerō (“to endure”).
Words formed from tolerance
- aerotolerance
- autotolerance
- barotolerance
- Byzantine fault tolerance
- chaotolerance
- chronotolerance
- crosstolerance
- cryotolerance
- halotolerance
- heterotolerance
- homotolerance
- house of tolerance
- hypertolerance
- immunotolerance
- nontolerance
- osmotolerance
- paradox of tolerance
- phototolerance
- pseudotolerance
- psychrotolerance
- radiotolerance
- thermotolerance
- tolerance break
- trypanotolerance
- xenotolerance
- xerotolerance
- zero tolerance
Phrases with tolerance
Questions about tolerance
- What does tolerance mean?
- Tolerance means the ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
- What is tolerance in Hindi?
- Tolerance in Hindi is बर्दाश्त (bardāśt). See Tolerance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tolerance?
- Tolerance can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tolerance?
- Tolerance is pronounced /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tolerance?
- The plural of tolerance is tolerances.
Words near tolerance in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tolerance (page history and authors); बर्दाश्त (Hindi) (page history and authors); tolerance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tolerance (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); برداشت (Urdu) (page history and authors); tolerance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); صبر (Punjabi) (page history and authors); tolerance (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tolerance (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); सहन (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); tolerance (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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