Broadmindedness vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
broadmindedness | tolerance |
State or quality of being broadminded; openness to new things and new ideas.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 26, author=Harsimarbir Singh, title=Becoming a Dukie (and an American), work=New York Times
, passage=I knew I had entered a land of broadmindedness , kick-starting my evolution toward the Western way of life. }}
(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 broadmindedness and tolerance
is that broadmindedness is state or quality of being broadminded; openness to new things and new ideas while tolerance is tolerance.broadmindedness
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