tolerance: Meaning and Definition of

tol•er•ance

1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.
3. interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint.
4. the act or capacity of enduring; endurance: My tolerance of noise is limited.
5. a tolerance to antibiotics.
1. the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, etc.:a tolerance to antibiotics.
2. the lack of or low levels of immune response to transplanted tissue or other foreign substance that is normally immunogenic.
1. the permissible range of variation in a dimension of an object. Cf. allowance (def. 8).
2. the permissible variation of an object or objects in some characteristic such as hardness, weight, or quantity.
7. Also called allowance.a permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coin, owing to the difficulty of securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.