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Definition: Tolerance |
ToleranceNoun1. The power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions. 2. A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior. 3. The act of tolerating something. 4. Willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others. 5. A permissible difference; allowing freedom to move within limits. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tolerance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, noun. [Latin tolerantia: compare to French tol['e]rance.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The allowable variation in measurements within which the dimensions of an item are judged acceptable. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | The ability of an organism or biological process to subsist under a given set of environmental conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | The ability of trees, shrubs, and ground vegetation to remain in vigour under recreation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Diversity | Acceptance and open-mindedness to different practices, attitudes, and cultures; does not necessarily mean agreement with the differences. (references) |
Health | 1. the ability to endure unusually large doses of a drug or toxin. 2. acquired drug tolerance; a decreasing response to repeated constant doses of a drug or the need for increasing doses to maintain a constant response. (references) |
Industry | A permitted deviation(plus or minus)from a specified dimension of a product. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Adaptation phenomenon characterized by diminished response to the same quantity of a drug. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Difference between two permissible limits of size for which a part still meets its purpose. This purpose may obviously be the possibility to obtain by machining a part of given size. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The difference between the maximum limit of size and the minimum limit of size; in other words, the algebraical difference between the upper deviation and the lower deviation. The tolerance is an absolute value without sign. A "tolerance" may also be a tolerance of shape. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A specified allowance (either plus or minus) of the given dimensions of a finished product to take care of inaccuracies in workmanship of parts to be fitted together. The amount allowed as tolerance is generally small as compared with the standard dimension of the part; e.g., the tolerance allowed in the set diameters of a diamond bit is + or -0.02 mm. (references) |
Physics | The maximum allowed variation in a measured value expressed as a fraction of a mean value of an appropriate number of measurements. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Religious pluralism refers to societal and theological change of attitudes to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion. Religious pluralism is essentially based on a non-literal view of one's religious traditions, hence allowing for respect to be engendered between different traditions on core principles rather than more marginal issues. It is perhaps summarized as an attitude which rejects focus on immaterial differences, and instead gives respect to those beliefs held in common.In a different sense, religious pluralism often manifests itself as a limited form of religious universalism--only similar ones are considered, instead of accommodating respect for all religious traditions. One example of many is the case with what is loosely called "Christian Zionism", which in one respect is extremely important for its attitudes in support of respect between Christians and Jews. On the other hand, in international political and social contexts, is often seen to represent an exclusion of Muslims, as the third of the three Abrahamic religions.
Literal truth and spiritual truth
Different religious texts contain certain terms that may contradict, or seem to contradict, each other. A central example centers around the widely held Christian belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Jews and Muslims traditionally hold views that contradict the common Christian view. In a pluralist sense these different views do not contradict each other in a meaningful way. In fact, the term in question is not Jesus, but what is meant by the word "divinity." Christ's divinity, from a pluralist point of view, does not represent a divinity apart from other men, rather that the mortal, Jesus, who upon death became the "Christ", represents a link between man and his own divinity. (See Isa).Christians texts say Jesus was crucified, while Muslim texts say he was not. Therefore, claiming that both Christianity and Islam are both literally "true" presents itself as a contradiction. But because nearly all religious texts are in fact a combination of historical documents, journalist accounts, essays, and morality plays, distinctions must be made between the literal claims within religious texts, and those claims contained within spiritual metaphors. The differences between spiritual metaphors are common, even if they are closely related. Until recently, a common flaw in Biblical research has been to seek validation of spiritual truth by attempting to verify literal facts. The discovery of the city of Troy, at the time hailed as a proof by association, exemplifies one such attempt to bridge the historical value of certain ancient texts, with a spiritual validation of ideas expressed in related texts.
However, most religious pluralists hold that no religion can claim to teach the only or absolute truth, arguing that religion is not literally the word of God, but rather is mankind's attempt to describe the word of God. Given man's finite and fallible nature, no religious text can absolutely describe God and God's will in absolute precision. On this view no religion is completely true and there is an infinite Reality, or God, that is beyond the ability of any single religion to capture with total accuracy. Instead, all religions make an attempt at capturing this Reality, but this always occurs within a cultural and historical context that affects the viewpoints of the faith's holders.A recent theological innovation, held by some religious liberals, is a maximal form of religious pluralism. This viewpoint holds that all religions are equally valid and equally true. This form has become held by some who accept some forms of post-modern philosophy, especially deconstructionism. Critics of this viewpoint hold that this claim is self-contradictory.
In the last century, liberal forms of Judaism and Christianity have modified some of their religious positions. Religious liberals in these faiths no longer claim that their religion is complete and of absolute accuracy; rather the Jews teach that their faith is only the most complete and accurate revelation of God to humanity that we have, and the Christians teach the same thing in reverse. This allows a religious believer to admit that other faiths have common ground with their own faith, and that these other faiths may even appreciate some other aspect of God that they might not. Adherents of this position argue that just as scientists must have intellectual humility in order for them to find the truth about the laws of nature, religions must have theological humility, and admit that they do not have a exclusive path to God. Religious conservatives in Christianity reject these claims outright, and hold that only their path allows a person to reach God. However, many if not most of these same conservatives would acknowledge that some expressions of faith will vary from culture to culture and from time period to time period, and new cultures may indeed shed new light on old dogmas.
Many people hold that it is both permissible and imperative for people of all faiths to develop some form of religious pluralism. It is intellectually valid for us to do so because since Biblical times, our understanding of man's place in the natural world has changed radically, due to advances in science; since Biblical times, philosophers have challenged us to rethink our notion of truth, and the very way that we use language itself; advances in travel and communications rule out isolationism; and advances in weaponry and warfare rule out religious intolerance, as this can now lead to mass-murder on scales previously unimaginable.
Some religions hold a retrospective form of religious pluralism. A religion can tolerate and sometimes endorse religions which were created before its beginning, but will not accept any new religion which has arisen after itself.
For example, Christianity accepts some aspects of Judaism, but generally rejects Islam. Islam accepts some aspects of Christianity, but does not tolerate the Baha'i faith. Most adherents of Baha'i accept Christianity, Islam and Judaism, but do not accept new theological innovations that have been created in their community since then.
Inter-religious pluralism (between different religions)
Classical Greek and Roman pagan religious views
The ancient Greeks were polytheists; pluralism in that historical era meant accepting the existence of and validity of other faiths, and the gods of other faiths. Greeks and Romans easily accomplished this task by subsuming the entire set of gods from other faiths into their own religion; this was done on rare occasion by adding a new god to their own pantheon; on most occasions they identified another religion's gods with their own.
Jewish views
There is a separate entry on Jewish views of religious pluralism, which discusses both classical and modern views of Judaism's relationship to other religions, and the permissibility and purpose of inter-faith theological dialogue.
Christian views
Classical Christian views
Christianity teaches that on their own, it is impossible for any person to have a relationship with God, and that the result of a lack of such a relationship is damnation. To avoid such a fate, Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ was God made flesh in a literal manner, and that by accepting various beliefs about Jesus and God and repenting, a person could then have a meaningful relationship with God and avoid damnation, and earn eternal life in Heaven. All non-Christians, especially Jews, are specifically pointed to as destined for damnation; they complain that such teachings may be considered hateful or anti-Semitic. Christians respond by teaching that it is not they who teach these things or passing judgement, it is God Himself who passes final judgment. Christians teach that the consequence of self-separation from the triune God, who they view as the ultimate source of all life, is eternal death. In Christianity, all humanity shares a common fallen nature and a common predicament. Christians sometimes view their faith as a form of egalitarianism, because it teaches that all humanity potentially has equal access to salvation: a person simply has to renounce their faith and sincerely adopt Christianity.
Christians have traditionally argued that religious pluralism is an invalid or self-contradictory concept. Maximal forms of religious pluralism claim that all religions are equally true, or that one religion can be true for some and another for others. This Christians hold to be logically impossible. (Most Jews and Muslims similarly reject this maximal form of pluralism.) Christianity insists it is the fullest and most complete revelation of God to Man, that God exists as a Trinity, and that the person of Jesus Christ is not just the best but the only way to encounter God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. If Christianity is true, than Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and so forth cannot be equally true, although they may contain lesser revelations of God that are true. So the pluralist must either distort Christianity to make it pluralistic, or reject it and acknowledge that one cannot be a complete pluralist.
One image of the Church that was often used by the Church fathers was that of a hospital. In this analogy the doctor does not always care for a patient in the way the patient would like, but in the way best suited to bring about healing to the patient. (Entry into the hospital should of course be voluntary.) Doing what pluralists ask would be somewhat akin to accommodating the false "pillow prophets" of the Old Testament who prophesied to the king what he wanted to hear, predictions of victory, rather than God's words of certain defeat that could only be avoided through thorough repentance. Thus, Christianity must preach salvation through the Church to all outside the Church, in order to help people realize that through conversion to Christianity one will achieve salvation.
To these Christians, it appears to be a contradiction for non-Christians to acknowledge the validity of Christian prayers or sacraments, but continue to deny the beliefs which underlie those prayers and sacraments. The central sacrament, the Eucharist, for example, is believed to be the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ; belief in its efficacy is based on the belief that it really and truly is. If a person were to deny that the Eucharist is Christ's body and blood, that would amount to denying that it unites us to God, imparts grace, or administers any other benefit, save possibly through a sort of psychological placebo effect.
Modern (post-enlightenment era) Christian views
In recent years, some Christian groups have become more open to religious pluralism; this has led to many cases of reconciliation between Christians and people of other faiths.
In recent years there has been much to note in the way of reconciliation between some Christians groups and the Jewish people. Many modern day Christians, including many Catholics and some liberal Protestants, have developed a view of the New Testament as an extended covenant; They believe that Jews are still in a valid relationship with God, and that Jews can avoid damnation and earn a heavenly reward. For these Christians, the New Testament extended God's original covenant to cover non-Jews. The article Christian-Jewish reconciliation deals with this issue in detail.
Many smaller Christian groups in the US and Canada have come into being over the last 40 years, such as "Christians for Israel". Their website says that they exist in order to "expand Christian-Jewish dialogue in the broadest sense in order to improve the relationship between Christians and Jews, but also between Church and Synagogue, emphasizing Christian repentance, the purging of anti-Jewish attitudes and the false 'Replacement' theology rampant throughout Christian teachings."
A number of large Christian groups, including the Catholic Church and several large Protestant churches, have publicly declared that they will no longer proselytize Jews.
Most Christians, including most Orthodox Christians and most conservative Protestants, reject the idea of the New Testament as an extended covenant, and retain the classical Christian view as described above.
Muslim views
Classical Muslim views
Modern (post-enlightenment era) Muslim views
Baha'i views
Bahá'u'lláh urged the elimination of religious intolerance. God is one, and has manifested himself to us through several historic Messengers. We therefore must associate with people of all religions, showing the love of God in our relations with them, whether this is reciprocated or not.
Bahá'í's refer to the concept of "Progressive Revelation", which means that God's will is revealed to mankind progressively, as mankind matures and is better able to comprehend the purpose of God in creating humanity. In this view, God's word is revealed through a series of messengers: Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Bahá'u'lláh (the founder of the Bah'ai faith) among them. In the Book of Certitude, Bahá'u'lláh acknowledges that what these messengers say about themselves is inevitably true, thus if Jesus claims Divinity then this cannot be denied, since God is speaking through him.
According to Baha'is there will not be another messenger for many hundred of years.
Hindu views
The Hindu religion is naturally pluralistic. As such the Hindu religion has no theological difficulties in accepting degrees of truth in other religions. Just as Hindus worshiping Ganesh is seen as valid those worshiping Vishnu (who accepts all prayers), so someone worshiping Jesus or Allah are accepted. Indeed many foreign deities become assimilated into Hinduism, and some Hindus may sometimes offer prayers to Jesus along with their traditional Gods. For this reason, Hinduism usually has good relations with other religious groups accepting pluralism. In particular, Hinduism and Buddhism coexist peacefully in many parts of the world.
Despite the lack of theological barriers to pluralism, relations with other religions are not always good. In particular, in India there is a history of conflict with Islam. Muslims view Hindus as the worst kind of infidels, as unlike Christians and Jews they do not worship Allah, and are not "people of the book". This is reciprocated by Hindus, who view Muslims as hostile to their religion. In India, a number of Muslims mosques have been built on the sites of ancient Hindu temples; this has lead to violence such as the sacking of the Babri mosque in 1992. The number of sites where mosques have been built on Hindu temples is disputed. Some Hindu group claim that tens of thousands of sites are effected, whereas some historians claim that the number is less than a thousand.
Intra-religious pluralism (between different denominations within the same religion)
Jewish views
Jewish views on relations between different Jewish denominations is covered in the entry on Jewish views of religious pluralism.
Christian views
See Ecumenism.
Classical Christian views
Prior to the Great Schism, mainstream Christianity confessed "one holy catholic and apostolic church", in the words of the Nicene Creed. Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Episcopalians and most Protestant Christian denominations still maintain this belief.
Church unity was something very visible and tangible, and schism was just as serious an offense as heresy. Following the Great Schism, Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have generally continued to recognize each others' baptisms as valid, although they are still not in full communion. Both generally regard each other as "heterodox" and possibly even "schismatic", while continuing to recognize each other as Christian. Attitudes of both towards different Protestant groups vary.
Modern (post-enlightenment era) Christian views
Most fundamentalist Protestant Christian groups hold that only their Church provides a pathway to God and salvation. All other Christian groups are held to be heretical, and are sometimes attacked as Satanic. Neo-evangelical Protestant Christian Churches reject this view outright, and hold that most forms of Christianity are valid pathways to God. They continue to believe in "one" church, but see the Church as being generally invisible and intangible. Many Protestants doubt that either Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy are still valid manifestations of the Church.
Muslim views
Classical Muslim views
Modern (post-enlightenment era) Muslim views
Buddhist views
Classical Buddhist views
Modern (post-enlightenment era) Buddhist views
Universal Vehiclism is an attempt to unite the different branches of Buddhism into a single coherent Buddhist philosophy and set of practices, in order to increase the appeal of Buddhism to the youth in Asia.
References
See also Projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs -- Jacques Dupuis -- freedom of religion, pluralism, syncretism
- "Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism", Robert Gordis et al, Jewish Theological Seminary and the Rabbinical Assembly, 1988
- "Ground Rules for a Christian-Jewish Dialogue" in "The Root and the Branch", Robert Gordis, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1962
- "Christians and Heretics in Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity" Richard Kalmin, Harvard Theological review, Volume 87(2), p.155-169, 1994
- "Toward a Theological Encounter: Jewish Understandings of Christiantiy" Ed. Leon Klenicki, Paulist Press / Stimulus, 1991
- "People of God, Peoples of God" Ed. Hans Ucko, WCC Publications, 1996
External links
- The imperative of religious pluralism: A Conservative Jewish view
- Tolerance and Pluralism: A Comparative Study Mission In Israel
- Dabru Emet
- Christians for Israel
- Relations between Christians and Jews
- World Council of Churches Bibliography of works on religious pluralism
- Ayodhya: India's religious flashpoint (Hindu-Muslim conflict)
- India Potential trouble spots abound (Hindu-Muslim conflict)
- claims Muslim invaders destroyed tens of thousands of temples in India
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Religious pluralism."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tolerance, in a social, cultural and religious sense, is the acceptance of other people who hold different and disagreeing beliefs, or otherwise represent ideologies or cultures that have a history of being disrespected. More generally the term is used with regard to behavior that is not mainstream/normal.Tolerance is weaker than respect: a disagreeable party may still be disapproved of, and interaction may be limited to what is necessary, the disagreeable party is simply left undisturbed.
Tolerance cannot be neutral about what is good, though, for its very purpose is to guard good and avert evils. The circumstantial element in the practice of tolerance is right judgment of greater ends against lesser ends.
The term is also used with a more negative connotation with regard to unorderly conduct and small crimes; e.g. there may be a zero tolerance policy towards drugs and violence.
Tolerance as a Virtue
As an Aristotelian virtue, tolerance is a mean between softheadedness on the one hand (overtolerance) and narrow mindedness on the other (undertolerance).
In Christianity, with regard to the one's former way of life, there is a need to put off the old self which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires (prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance), and be renewed in the spirit of the mind. There is also a corresponding need to put on the new self, which was created to be like God, in righteousness and true holiness (tolerance, forbearance, and leniency).
Tolerance in Engineering
In engineering, tolerance is an allowance made for imperfections in a manufactured object. For example, an electrical specification might call for a resistor with a nominal value of 100 ohms, but should also state a tolerance such as "+/- 1%". This means that any resistor with a value in the range 99 ohms to 101 ohms is acceptable. It would not be reasonable to specify a resistor with a value of exactly 100 ohms, because such a resistor cannot be made. It is good practice to specify the largest possible tolerance, to make manufacturing easier and to keep costs down.
Tolerance in Physiology
In physiology, tolerance occurs when an organism builds up a resistance to the effects of a substance after repeated exposure. This can occur with environmental substances such as salt or pesticides. It is also commonly encountered in pharmacology, when a subject's reaction to a drug (such as a painkiller or intoxicant) decreases so that larger doses are required to achieve the same effect. See drug tolerance; tachyphylaxis and desensitization.
See also
- intolerance
- heresy
- inquisition
- prejudice
- religious pluralism
- freedom of religion
- fat acceptance movement
- grey area
External Link
- The Illusion of Moral Neutrality
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tolerance."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CON TOL | English | Concentricity tolerance | N/A |
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Synonyms: ToleranceSynonyms: allowance (n), leeway (n), margin (n), permissiveness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: intolerance (n), unpermissiveness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Noun: inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth. |
Feeling | Noun: feeling; suffering; Verb: endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy; (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense. |
Lenity | Noun: lenity, lenience, leniency; moderation; tolerance, toleration; mildness, gentleness; favor, indulgence, indulgency; clemency, mercy, forbearance, quarter; compassion. |
Permission | Noun: permission, leave; allowance, sufferance; tolerance, toleration; liberty, law, license, concession, grace; indulgence; (lenity); favor, dispensation, exemption, release; connivance; vouchsafement. |
Space | Lalatitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer) America was going to be the land of tolerance. Peace (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Zero Tolerance (2002) | |
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 | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Spotted turtle - Clemmys guttata. According to some accounts this is the smallest of turtles. It is found in brackish and freshwater. It has a low tolerance for pollution and is thus an indicator species of water quality. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Croix sheep have shown resistance to parasites and tolerance to hot weather. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by ARS.. |
 | Plant physiologist Leon Kochain (left) and molecular biologist David Garvin check wheat plants for aluminum tolerance. Some wheat and corn plants can tolerate aluminum by excluding the metal from the root tip. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | A corn-eastern gamagrass hybrid. Eastern gamagrass is a native grass with a gene pool that has a lot to offer corn, including resistance to cold and insects, as well as tolerance to drought and flood. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Formosan Subterranean soldier termites (darker heads and mandibles) and worker termites in test tubes. The white disks at the bottom of the tubes contain different insecticides to guage their tolerance level. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | ||
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Giacomo Leopardi | No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. |
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United Nations | 1948 | It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This is known as donor-specific tolerance. (references) | |
With regular heroin use, tolerance develops. (references) | ||
As cocaine abuse continues, tolerance often develops. (references) | ||
Business | In areas such as economic policy or legal reform, there was far greater official tolerance for comment and debate. (references) | |
Almost 60 percent of 1998 equipment imports were generating sets. This volume probably reflects both industrial demand in remote areas, and backup power for businesses with low tolerance for power outages. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Jamaica | Rastafarians believe that the recommendation indicates increased tolerance of their religious practices. (references) |
Venezuela | These requirements are waived for foreigners and for opinion columnists, on the grounds of tolerance of free speech. (references) | |
Kuwait | The Church views the Government's acquiescence to establishing relations with the Vatican as significant in terms of government tolerance of Christianity. (references) | |
Discrimination | Belize | The country is multiracial and multiethnic, and the Government actively promotes tolerance and cross-cultural understanding. (references) |
Tanzania | Religious and ethnic tensions in society continue to exist; however, the Government issued several statements in 2000 encouraging religious and ethnic tolerance during the election campaign. (references) | |
Economic History | Costa Rica | Protex Electronica -- High tolerance elec. (references) |
Human Rights | China | Many gays and lesbians saw the move as a sign of increased government tolerance. (references) |
Mexico | He described his first year in office as a time of plurality and tolerance with complete freedom of expression. (references) | |
Czech Republic | The best-known human rights groups are the Czech Helsinki Committee and the Tolerance Foundation (an umbrella organization). (references) | |
Minorities | Afghanistan | The Taliban was Pashtun-dominated and showed little tolerance for accommodation with ethnic minorities. (references) |
Eritrea | Societal attitudes toward members of Jehovah's Witnesses are the exception to a widespread religious tolerance. (references) | |
Slovak Republic | This project is intended to assist in educating the public about Jewish themes and increase tolerance toward minorities. (references) | |
Political Economy | Greece | Leaders of minority religions noted a general improvement in government tolerance. (references) |
Bangladesh | Jamaat-e-Islami calls for an Islamic state, but also professes a commitment to tolerance, democracy and economic freedom. (references) | |
POLAND | Scientific evidence indicates that such weed seeds already exist in Poland and neighboring countries, yet Polish authorities have been unwilling to relax their zero tolerance policy. (references) | |
Political Rights | South Africa | There was an improved level of overall tolerance during the campaigning and voting period compared with the 1994 elections, attributable to IFP-ANC talks, as well as an increased police presence. (references) |
Travel | Norway | Norway has adopted a zero tolerance policy regarding drinking and driving. (references) |
Women | Armenia | Although women have been present in the work force for several generations, tolerance for broadening their roles or behavior is low, especially in the rural regions. (references) |
Worker Rights | Slovak Republic | There is no evidence of government involvement in or tolerance of trafficking, and the Ministry of Interior is involved in activities to combat trafficking. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The Mayflower Pilgrims, led by William Bradford, established the freest society ever conceived based on the teachings and tolerance of the Bible. |
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Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | For myself I beg your tolerance, your countenance and your united aid. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Last year, he led an infantry unit that stopped mob of extremists from taking over a radio station that is a voice of democracy and tolerance in Bosnia. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Let the skeptics look to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning, and tolerance and progress. |
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| "Tolerance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "Tolerance" is used about 708 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.29% | 703 | 9,512 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 708 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tolerance": allowable dimensional tolerance ♦ constructional tolerance ♦ dimensional tolerance ♦ Drug Tolerance ♦ Exercise Tolerance ♦ fault tolerance ♦ Glucose tolerance ♦ Glucose Tolerance Test ♦ Immune Tolerance ♦ immunological tolerance ♦ limit of tolerance ♦ Previous Abnormality of Glucose Tolerance ♦ radiation tolerance ♦ radiation tolerance level ♦ religious tolerance ♦ salt tolerance gene ♦ Self Tolerance ♦ show large tolerance ♦ tolerance level ♦ tolerance of ♦ tolerance of dimension ♦ Tolerance of the mint ♦ tolerance threshold ♦ Transplantation Tolerance ♦ Work Schedule Tolerance. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "tolerance": fault-tolerance. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tolerance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tolerancë (allowance, latitude, toleration), zemërgjerësi (bountifulness, generosity, graces, magnanimity), qëndresë (endurance, fastness, fortitude, hardiness, lasting, resistance, stamina, stand, stay, toughness), lejesë, lëshim (coast, concession, discharge, droop, drop, emission, failure, flaccidity, flagging, funk, issuance, issue, launch, launching, laxity, laxness, megrims, profligacy, release, relief, sag), durim (bearing, endurance, fitness, patience, stay, sufferance, toleration). (various references) | |
Arabic | حلم (clemency, dream, forbearance, indulgence, longanimity, overindulgence, patience, toleration), تفاوت مسموح ميكانيكيا, تسامح (forbearance, forgave, indulgence, lenience, leniency, lenity, liberality, mildness, toleration), سماحة رحابة صدر (magnanimity), الإحتمال (bearing, possibility). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | търпимост (latitude, lenity), толерантност (broad-mindedness, latitude, permissiveness, toleration), толеранс (allowance, limit), поносимост, допустимост (acceptability, admissibility). (various references) | |
Chinese | 容忍 (tolerate, Tolerated, Tolerating). (various references) | |
Czech | tolerance (toleration), snášenlivost (broadmindedness, broad-mindedness), odolnost (endurance, immunity, stamina, toughness). (various references) | |
Danish | tolerance (resistance). (various references) | |
Dutch | tolerantie (allowable dimensional tolerance, dimensional tolerance, tolerance of dimension). (various references) | |
Farsi | مدارا (Affability, Reserve), تحمل (Endurance), سعه نظر (Perspective), اغماض (Connivance), بردباری (Fortitude, Patience, Spartanism). (various references) | |
Finnish | sietokyky (resistance, tolerant), sieto. (various references) | |
French | tolérance (toleration), résistance. (various references) | |
German | Toleranz (broad-mindedness, permissiveness), Duldsamkeit (forbearance, meekness). (various references) | |
Greek | ανεκτικότητα (broad-mindedness, leniance, permissiveness, sufferance, toleration), ανοχή (allowance, bearing, forbearance, sufferance), αντοχή (durability, endurance, fortitude, hardihood, hardiness, resistance, resistibility, steeliness, sturdiness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טולר טיות, סובל ות (indulgence, sufferance, toleration), סבילות (endurance, passivity), סבל ות (patience), סבולת (allowance, endurance, resistance, stamina). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tolerancia (margin, margin of error). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesabaran (endurance, forbearance, patience). (various references) | |
Italian | tolleranza (allowance, endurance, forbearance, sufferance, toleration). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 寛大 (leniency, liberality). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がま" (endurance, patience, perseverance, self-control, self-denial), がりょう (exceptional person hidden among the masses, generosity, great man, magnanimity, reclining dragon), トレランス , ほうようりょく, か"よう (common, crucial, cultivation, customary, essential, forbearance, fostering, generosity, government business, governmental porcelain furnace, importance, lobe of the liver, official use, training, vital), か" い (Kansai University, leniency, liberality), "うさ (allowance, common difference, consideration, cross, crossing, examination, golden sands, intersection, margin, quiz, test). (various references) | |
Korean | 포용 . (various references) | |
Manx | lowaltys (approbation, justification, limit, sanction), fuillaghtys (bloodshed, toleration). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olerancetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tolerância (abiding, allowance, catholicity, charity, endurance, room, sufferance, toleration). (various references) | |
Romanian | toleranţã (allowance, bearing, comprehension, fondness, forbearance, indulgence, liberality, limit, toleration), rãbdare (bearing, endurance, forbearance, patience, perseverance, philosophy), îngãduinţã (approval, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, non-interference, patience). (various references) | |
Russian | терпимость . (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trpeljivost, tolerancija (toleration). (various references) | |
Spanish | tolerancia (abiding, allowance, broadmindedness, indulgence, overmeasure, reasonableness, sufferance, tolerability, toleration). (various references) | |
Swedish | tolerans (permissiveness, toleration). (various references) | |
Turkish | tolerans (allowance, complaisance, forbearance, free play, latitude, margin, toleration), tahammül (endurance, fortitude, hardihood, hardiness, patience, resistance, sufferance), müsamaha (connivance, indulgence, sufferance), hoşgörü (allowance, clemency, complaisance, discretion, forbearance, indulgence, latitude, lenience, leniency, toleration), hata payı, dayanma (endurance, lean, osculation, resistance, resting, stand, stay, sufferance, wear). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зydamlylyk (durability). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стерпність, толерантність, терпимість (lenience, toleration), допустиме відхилення. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tha thứ sự kiên nhẫn sự chịu đựng, lòng khoan dung (clemency). (various references) | |
Welsh | goddefgarwch (forbearance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tolerantia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tolerance": tolerances. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tolerance": intolerance. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tolerance": intolerances. (additional references) | |
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"Tolerance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Colorance, Oleracea, olerance, toblerone, tolarance, tolerace, toleran, tolerence, tolerince, tolerlance, tolernace, tolernce, tolerrance, tollerance, Tolverne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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