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Toleration vs Discrimination - What's the difference?

toleration | discrimination |

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

English

Noun

  • (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:
  • Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.

    discrimination

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • sexual or racial discrimination
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nondiscrimination * reverse discrimination

    Hyponyms

    *heterosexism *ageism *ableism *xenophobia

    See also

    * stereotype * bias * racism ----