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Gentleness vs Tolerance - What's the difference?

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Gentleness is a related term of tolerance.


As nouns the difference between gentleness and tolerance

is that gentleness is the state of being gentle while tolerance is tolerance.

gentleness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The state of being gentle.

    • tolerance

    English

    (wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * tolerability * tolerable * tolerant * tolerate * toleration

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