Meaning of INTOLERANCE
| Pronunciation: | | in'tâluruns
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- [n] impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"
- [n] unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs
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| | Antonyms: | | tolerance | | |
| | See Also: | | attitude, bigotry, dogmatism, fanaticism, impatience, mental attitude, narrow-mindedness, zealotry | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*tol"er*ance\, n. [L. intolerantia impatience,
unendurableness: cf. F. intol['e]rance.]
1. Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to
others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of
worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance;
illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a
religious sect.
These few restrictions, I hope, are no great
stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions
of despotism. --Burke.
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| Medical Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | allergy or sensitivity to a food, drug, or other substance. |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Lack of tolerance. An inability of the body to digest or break down certain substances (drugs or nutrients) which are normally digestible by others. For example, lactose intolerance is an inability to digest the sugar lactose. |
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| | Related Terms: | | ageism, balkiness, bias, bigotry, bullheadedness, classism, determination, discrimination, doggedness, dogmatism, fanaticism, fixed mind, hardheadedness, headstrongness, illiberality, inflexible will, intoleration, mulishness, narrow-mindedness, nonendurance, obduracy, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, overzealousness, partiality, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, prejudice, racialism, racism, restiveness, self-will, sexism, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, strongheadness, stubbornness, sulkiness, sullenness, tenaciousness, tenacity, uncharitableness, uncooperativeness, unforbearance, ungenerousness, unregenerateness, willfulness, xenophobia |
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