Appetite vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
appetite | tolerance |
Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
* (1800-1859)
The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
A taste, preference.
(uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
(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.
(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
As nouns the difference between appetite and tolerance
is that appetite is desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger while tolerance is tolerance.appetite
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite . There is something humiliating about it.}}
- If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
- To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
- The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
