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Misery vs Toleration - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between misery and toleration

is that misery is great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe while toleration is endurance of evil, suffering etc.

misery

English

Noun

(miseries)
  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  • Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .
  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  • (Extreme) poverty.
  • Greed; avarice.
  • Synonyms

    * see

    Derived terms

    * put out of one's misery

    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.