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Endurance vs Tolerance - What's the difference?

endurance | tolerance |

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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Noun

  • The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
  • He has great endurance , he ran a marathon and then rode his bicycle home.
  • Ability to endure hardship.
  • tolerance

    Noun

  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * intolerance

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