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toleration

/tɒləˈɹeɪʃən/

toleration noun: endurance of evil, suffering etc.

Noun

toleration (countable and uncountable, plural tolerations)

  1. (obsolete) Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
  2. The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
  3. Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
    • Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 86

toleration meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

toleration in Hindi

toleration, endurance
सहन sahan

toleration in Urdu

toleration, endurance
سہن sahan

toleration in Malayalam

സഹിഷ്ണുത, വിരോധിക്കാതിരിക്കൽ, ക്ഷമ

toleration in Kannada

ಸಹನಶೀಲತೆ, ಉದಾರತೆ
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toleration in Gujarati
સહન sahan

Forms of toleration

pluraltolerations

Origin of toleration

From Middle French toleration, from Latin tolerātiōnem, accusative singular of tolerātiō, from the verb tolerō (“to tolerate”). Compare tolerance.

Words formed from toleration

Questions about toleration

What does toleration mean?
Toleration means endurance of evil, suffering etc.
What is toleration in Hindi?
Toleration in Hindi is सहन (sahan). See Toleration meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is toleration?
Toleration is a noun.
How do you pronounce toleration?
Toleration is pronounced /tɒləˈɹeɪʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of toleration?
The plural of toleration is tolerations.

Words near toleration in the dictionary

  1. tolerated use
  2. tolerates
  3. toleratest
  4. tolerateth
  5. tolerating
  6. toleration
  7. tolerationism
  8. tolerationist
  9. tolerationists
  10. tolerations
  11. tolerative

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: toleration (page history and authors); सहन (Hindi) (page history and authors); سہن (Urdu) (page history and authors); toleration (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toleration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સહન (Gujarati) (page history and authors). 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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