Endurance vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
endurance | tolerance |
The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
Ability to endure hardship.
(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 endurance and tolerance
is that endurance is the measure of a person's stamina or persistence while tolerance is the ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.endurance
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* (all obsolete)Noun
- He has great endurance , he ran a marathon and then rode his bicycle home.