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Tolerant vs Humane - What's the difference?

tolerant | humane |

As adjectives the difference between tolerant and humane

is that tolerant is tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something while humane is having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

tolerant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something
  • He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
  • tending to withstand or survive
  • These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.

    humane

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
  • It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
    As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.
  • Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
  • *, II.3.7:
  • many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.
  • Antonyms

    * inhuman, inhumane

    Derived terms

    * humanely

    References

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