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Type Words
Synonyms permissiveness
Type of disposition, temperament
Has types acceptance, indulgence, lenience, leniency, overtolerance, sufferance, toleration
Type Words
Synonyms allowance, leeway, margin
Type of variance, disagreement, divergence, discrepancy
Type Words
Type of allowance
Has types leniency, lenience
Derivation tolerate
Type Words
Type of endurance
Has types capacity
Type Words
Type of attitude, mental attitude
Has types neutrality, disinterest, liberalness, liberality, broad-mindedness
Derivation tolerant

Examples of tolerance

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They may have less tolerance for a president who leads cautiously from the back.
From the sacbee.com
This failure results from a poor understanding of the mechanism of TB tolerance.
From the sciencedaily.com
Called gedogen, the approach might be translated as tolerance of minor offenses.
From the businessweek.com
Three decades on, a new tolerance for public emotion has strict limits, however.
From the economist.com
Do children benefit from learning about diversity and tolerance at an early age?
From the brimbankweekly.com.au
Tolerance of such austerity tends to evaporate when business is seen to pick up.
From the economist.com
Sending the right signals to human Th17 cells to break self-tolerance to tumors.
From the sciencedaily.com
With the new improved method studied here, tolerance was significantly improved.
From the sciencedaily.com
The trust has a zero-tolerance policy regarding housing discrimination, he said.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • The power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
  • Permissiveness: a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
  • The act of tolerating something
  • Willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
  • Allowance: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
  • Kind: tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"
  • In general usage, tolerance is the ability to accept the existence of something while still disapproving of it. ...
  • Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in # a physical dimension, # a measured value or physical property of a material, manufactured object, system, or service, # other measured values (such as temperature, humidity, etc). ...
  • In mathematical logic, a tolerant sequence is a sequence