Misery vs Toleration - What's the difference?
misery | toleration | Related terms |
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(Extreme) poverty.
Greed; avarice.
(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:
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)- Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .
Synonyms
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* put out of one's miserytoleration
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Noun
- Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.