Noun: tolerance
| Singular | tolerance |
| Plural | tolerances |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: forbearance
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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:]
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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.
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Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
Nouns inflected like tolerance
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
toleraunce', Middle English Nouns '
toleraunce'.
Verbs referencing "tolerance"
Finnish Nouns
toleranssi.