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Tolerance vs Ignoring - What's the difference?

tolerance | ignoring |

As nouns the difference between tolerance and ignoring

is that tolerance is tolerance while ignoring is the act by which something is ignored.

As a verb ignoring is

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tolerance

English

(wikipedia tolerance)

Noun

  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * intolerance

    Related terms

    * tolerability * tolerable * tolerant * tolerate * toleration

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    ignoring

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is ignored.
  • * 1999 , David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (volume 2, page 437)
    • We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S'' does not ignore them. ''S'' is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because ''S never knew much of anything.

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