tolerance

See also: tolérance

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/

Noun

tolerance (countable and uncountable, plural tolerances)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
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. [from 18th c.]
   • 2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine:

     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.

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. [from 19th c.]
4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]

   Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.

5. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.]

Antonyms

• intolerance

Hyponyms

• (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance

Derived terms

• aerotolerance
• aerotolerance
• autotolerance
• autotolerance
• barotolerance
• barotolerance
• Byzantine fault tolerance
• chaotolerance
• chaotolerance
• chronotolerance
• chronotolerance
• crosstolerance
• crosstolerance
• cryotolerance
• cryotolerance
• halotolerance
• halotolerance
• heterotolerance
• heterotolerance
• homotolerance
• homotolerance
• house of tolerance
• hypertolerance
• hypertolerance
• immunotolerance
• immunotolerance
• nontolerance
• nontolerance
• osmotolerance
• osmotolerance
• phototolerance
• phototolerance
• pseudotolerance
• psychrotolerance
• psychrotolerance
• radiotolerance
• radiotolerance
• thermotolerance
• thermotolerance
• tolerance break
• trypanotolerance
• trypanotolerance
• xenotolerance
• xenotolerance
• xerotolerance
• xerotolerance
• zero tolerance

 

Related terms

• tolerability
• tolerable
• tolerant
• tolerate
• toleration

 

Translations

ability to endure pain or hardship — see also endurance

• Arabic: تَحَمُّل m (taḥammul)
• Bengali: সহন (bn) (śohon)
• Bulgarian: търпимост (bg) f (tǎrpimost)
• Finnish: kestokyky, kestävyys (fi)
• Georgian: გამძლეობა (gamʒleoba), ამტანობა (amṭanoba), ამტანიანობა (amṭanianoba), ტოლერანტობა (ṭoleranṭoba)
• German: Toleranz (de) f
• Greek: ανοχή (el) f (anochí),
• Irish: fulaingt f
• Italian: tolleranza (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: toleranse m

• Persian: بردباری (fa) (bordbâri)
• Romanian: rezistență (ro) f, toleranță (ro) f
• Russian: терпе́ние (ru) n (terpénije)
• Spanish: tolerancia (es) f
• Telugu: సహనం (te) (sahanaṁ)
• Turkish: hoşgörü (tr), müsamaha (tr), tolerans (tr), anlayış (tr)

ability or practice of tolerating

• Arabic: تَسَامُح m (tasāmuḥ)
• Armenian: հանդուրժողականություն (hy) (handuržoġakanutʻyun)
• Bengali: ক্ষমা (bn) (khoma)
• Bulgarian: толерантност (bg) f (tolerantnost)
• Catalan: tolerància (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寬容／宽容 (zh) (kuānróng)

• Czech: snášenlivost f, tolerance (cs) f
• Danish: tolerance (da)
• Dutch: verdraagzaamheid (nl) f, tolerantie (nl) f
• Esperanto: tolereco
• Finnish: suvaitsevaisuus (fi)
• French: tolérance (fr) f
• Georgian: შემწყნარებლობა (šemc̣q̇narebloba), ტოლერანტულობა (ṭoleranṭuloba)
• German: Toleranz (de) f
• Greek: ανοχή (el) f (anochí), ανεκτικότητα (el) f (anektikótita)

  Ancient: ἀνοχή f (anokhḗ)

• Hebrew: סובלנות (he)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: tolleranza (it) f
• Japanese: 寛容 (ja) (かんよう, kan'yō)
• Kazakh: толеранттық (toleranttyq), төзімділік (tözımdılık), тағаттылық (tağattylyq), шыдамдылық (şydamdylyq), толеранттылық (toleranttylyq), көнбістік (könbıstık)
• Latvian: tolerance f
• Lithuanian: tolerancija (lt) f, pakantumas m, pakanta f
• Malayalam: സഹിഷ്ണുത (ml) (sahiṣṇuta)
• Norman: toléthance f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: toleranse m

  Nynorsk: toleranse m

• Persian: مدارامنشی (modârâ-maneši), رواداری (fa) (ravâdâri)
• Polish: tolerancja (pl) f
• Portuguese: tolerância (pt) f
• Romanian: toleranță (ro) f
• Russian: терпи́мость (ru) f (terpímostʹ), толера́нтность (ru) f (tolerántnostʹ), толера́стия (ru) f (tolerástija) (derogatory, used especially by ultranationalists)
• Samogitian: tuolerancėjė f
• Serbo-Croatian: tolerancija (sh) f, podnošljivost (sh) f, trpeljivost (sh) f
• Spanish: tolerancia (es) f
• Swedish: tolerans (sv) c, fördragsamhet (sv) c
• Telugu: సహనం (te) (sahanaṁ)
• Turkish: tolerans (tr)
• Ukrainian: терпи́мість f (terpýmistʹ), толера́нтність (uk) f (tolerántnistʹ)

ability of the body to resist the action of a poison or infection

• Finnish: vastustuskyky (fi)

permitted deviation from standard

• Bulgarian: толеранс (bg) m (tolerans)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公差 (gung¹ caa¹)

  Mandarin: 公差 (zh) (gōngchā)

• Danish: tolerance (da)
• Finnish: toleranssi (fi)
• French: tolérance (fr) f
• German: Toleranz (de) f
• Greek: ανοχή (el) f (anochí)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: toleranse m

  Nynorsk: toleranse m

• Romanian: toleranță (ro) f, acceptare (ro) f
• Russian: до́пуск (ru) m (dópusk)
• Spanish: tolerancia (es) f
• Swedish: tolerans (sv) c
• Turkish: tolerans (tr)

ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection

• Finnish: toleranssi (fi)

Verb

tolerance (third-person singular simple present tolerances, present participle tolerancing, simple past and past participle toleranced)

1. To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.

References

• tolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “tolerance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “tolerance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “tolerance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• coeternal, neorectal

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtolɛrant͡sɛ]

Noun

tolerance f

1. tolerance (the ability or practice of tolerating)
2. tolerance (permitted deviation from standard)

Declension

Declension of tolerance (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	tolerance	tolerance
genitive	tolerance	tolerancí
dative	toleranci	tolerancím
accusative	toleranci	tolerance
vocative	tolerance	tolerance
locative	toleranci	tolerancích
instrumental	tolerancí	tolerancemi

Related terms

• toleranční
• tolerantní
• tolerovat

 

Further reading

• “tolerance”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tolerance”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989