Tolerance vs Tolerant - What's the difference?
tolerance | tolerant |
(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.
tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something
tending to withstand or survive
Tolerant is a related term of tolerance.
As a noun tolerance
is the ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.As an adjective tolerant is
tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.tolerance
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
- These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.