tolerance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The willingness to accept beliefs, opinions, or behaviour that differ from your own.

   The school teaches tolerance of other cultures and religions.

2. 2
   noun

   The ability to endure pain, hardship, or difficult conditions.

   Years of training gave her a high tolerance for cold.

3. 3
   noun

   The small amount by which a measurement is allowed to vary from a standard.

   The parts must be made to a tolerance of one millimetre.

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”).

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