Leniency vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
leniency | tolerance |
The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.
An act of being lenient.
(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 leniency and tolerance
is that leniency is the quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case while tolerance is tolerance.leniency
English
Noun
- The convicted felon asked for leniency , but because the crime was so heinous the judge refused and gave the maximum sentence.
