Antonyms of noun tolerance

1 of 5 senses of tolerance

Sense 4
tolerance -- (willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others)
       Antonym of intolerance (Sense 2)
      => intolerance -- (unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tolerance

5 senses of tolerance

Sense 1
tolerance -- (the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions)
       => endurance -- (the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance")

Sense 2
permissiveness, tolerance -- (a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior)
       => disposition, temperament -- (your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition")

Sense 3
tolerance -- (the act of tolerating something)
       => allowance -- (the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room")

Sense 4
tolerance -- (willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others)
       => attitude, mental attitude -- (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun")

Sense 5
allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance -- (a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits)
       => discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance -- (a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion")

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