tolerance

Meaning

Verb

To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

Noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
2. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
3. (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.
4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
5. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

Synonyms

patience

endurance

forbearance

toleration

allowance

sufferance

fortitude

perseverance

liberality

indulgence

broad-mindedness

stamina

margin

generosity

leniency

permissiveness

lenience

magnanimity

compassion

allow

bearing

energy

immunity

leeway

permit

tolerate

common difference

tolerable limit

enduringness

durability

lenient

lenity

drug tolerance

liberalness

limit

lustiness

coolness

connivance

mercy

passivity

acceptance

permission

broadmindedness

disease enduring

benevolence

persistence

resistance

restraint

self-control

self-denial

Translations

tolérance

Toleranz

tolerancia

tolleranza

tolerância

ανοχή

ανεκτικότητα

tolerantie

verdraagzaamheid

tolerància

patience

تحمل

Großmut

Nachsicht

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/

Etymology

From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).