intolerance

[in·tol·er·ance]

Intolerance or an unwillingness to accept the beliefs or behavior of someone different from you is not a quality you want to have. Intolerance is what leads to hate crimes and discrimination.

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Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Noun
impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"

Noun
unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs


n.
Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

n.
The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.


Intolerance

In*tol"er*ance , n. [L. intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F. intol'82rance.] 1. Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light. 2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.
These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism.

Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

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Usage Examples

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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Other Usage Examples

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

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