The meaning of TOLERANCE is capacity to endure pain or hardship : endurance, fortitude, stamina. How to use tolerance in a sentence.

TOLERANCE definition: 1. willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might…. Learn more.

TOLERANCE meaning: 1 : willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own; 2 : the ability to accept, experience, or survive something harmful or unpleasant

"Tolerance is only another name for indifference" [W. Somerset Maugham] "Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition" [Goethe]

Tolerance is the quality of allowing other people to say and do as they like, even if you do not agree or approve of it.

Tolerance Look up tolerance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Tolerance. Tolerance or toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally.

Dec 18, 2025 · tolerance (third-person singular simple present tolerances, present participle tolerancing, simple past and past participle toleranced) To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance. …