Optimism vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
optimism | tolerance |
a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome
the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds
the belief that good will eventually triumph over evil
(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 optimism and tolerance
is that optimism is a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome while tolerance is tolerance.optimism
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(en-noun) (wikipedia optimism)- I love her youth, her beauty and above all her optimism that everything will turn out fine.