Antonym: intolerance. Similar words: tolerate, entrance, insurance, accelerate, ranch, rancor, branch, veteran. Meaning: ['tɑlərəns /'tɒl-] n. 1. the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions 2. a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior 3. the act of tolerating something 4. willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others 5. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
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121. From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
122. A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt.
123. It has just published a table listing 48 countries and their tolerance of economic corruption in trade deals.
124. A martyr of tolerance, I think she would like not to just purse her thin prim lips.
125. Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Virginia Woolf
126. The context was always a plea for tolerance of something which he had been taught to regard as sinful.
127. We re an odd mixture of tolerance and prejudice, of the apologetic and the arrogant.
128. Jarrett dismisses excessive birth weight as being secondary to maternal obesity rather than glucose tolerance abnormalities.
129. Terribly talented people often have little tolerance for less talented middle managers.
130. The comedia lacrimosa champions a new moral code founded on friendship, tolerance, humanity and charity.
131. Most have no-smoking areas or designated smoking rooms, but more than half the companies still without restrictions reported less tolerance for smokers.
132. This is especially-true for insomniacs, who seem to have a lower tolerance to the stimulating effects of caffeine than most people.
133. Over time, coexistence was inevitable, involving compromise and limited mutual tolerance.
134. It is the tolerance of juveniles that controls overall distribution and the species is generally absent from estuaries.
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135. Tolerance for unorthodox political expression was simply not an ideological possibility.
136. Yes, zero tolerance does single people out, and more often than not, those people are black rather than white.
137. Would I be testing the limits of their tolerance for the rest of my feminist work?
138. There's usually a mutual tolerance, but sometimes strong feelings spill over.
139. Then, too, right beside the moralizing lay a deep and thoroughgoing tolerance.
140. Sometimes they individually pursued selfish national interests that strained the tolerance of allies.
141. As it was, he was forced to his usual obsequious tolerance.
142. The studies have been extended to show the same inverse relation between birth weight and glucose tolerance in young men aged 18-25.
143. If he is that different from the present denizens[sentencedict.com], perhaps his influence may extend to more tolerance toward detector users?
144. All of us have different levels of tolerance to the demands on our mental energy.
145. The research aims to investigate the contribution to pupils' understanding and tolerance made by language teaching.
146. Helen's frustration with people who don't appreciate her could result in a marked reduction in her tolerance level.
147. Market tolerance does not always require total visual perfection and graciously allows for a small range of error.
148. In his budget and health care proposals, Clinton overestimated the public tolerance for new government programs.
149. The non-vascular cryptogams have wide climatic tolerance, and spread readily by wind-distributed spores or vegetative propagules.
150. We have to learn tolerance, to look at our behaviour and to stop being self-righteous.
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