tolerance
noun
[ ˈtɒl(ə)r(ə)ns ]
• the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.
• "the tolerance of corruption"
Similar:
forbearance,
toleration,
sufferance,
liberality,
open-mindedness,
lack of prejudice,
lack of bias,
broad-mindedness,
liberalism,
patience,
long-suffering,
magnanimity,
sympathy,
understanding,
charity,
lenience,
leniency,
lenity,
indulgence,
clemency,
permissiveness,
complaisance,
laxness,
• the capacity to endure continued subjection to something such as a drug or environmental conditions without adverse reaction.
• "the desert camel shows the greatest tolerance to dehydration"
Similar:
endurance of,
acceptance of,
resistance to,
immunity to,
non-susceptibility to,
resilience to,
• an allowable amount of variation of a specified quantity, especially in the dimensions of a machine or part.
• "250 parts in his cars were made to tolerances of one thousandth of an inch"
Similar:
deviation,
fluctuation,
variation,
allowance,
play,
clearance,
leeway,
inaccuracy,
imprecision,
inexactness,
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the action of bearing hardship, or the ability to bear pain and hardship): via Old French from Latin tolerantia, from tolerare (see tolerate).
