Toleration vs Discrimination - What's the difference?
toleration | discrimination |
(obsolete) Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
* 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 86:
a distinction; discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things.
The state of being discriminated, distinguished from, or set apart.
(sometimes discrimination against ) distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry
The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.
As nouns the difference between toleration and discrimination
is that toleration is (obsolete) endurance of evil, suffering etc while discrimination is a distinction; discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things.toleration
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Noun
- Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.
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(wikipedia discrimination)Noun
(en noun)- sexual or racial discrimination