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1. The power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavourable environmental conditions
    
2. A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behaviour
   - permissiveness
    
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
   - allowance, leeway, margin

Derived forms: tolerances

See also: permissive, tolerant, tolerate, unpermissive

Type of: allowance, attitude, disagreement, discrepancy, disposition, divergence, endurance, mental attitude, temperament, variance

Antonym: intolerance

Encyclopedia: Tolerance