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Patience vs Toleration - What's the difference?

patience | toleration | Related terms |

Patience is a related term of toleration.


As a proper noun patience

is .

As a noun toleration is

(obsolete) endurance of evil, suffering etc.

patience

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being patient.
  • Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
  • Antonyms

    * impatience

    See also

    *garden patience ----

    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.