intolerance
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
intolerance
n 1: impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of
interruptions"
2: unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in
opinions or beliefs [ant: {tolerance}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Intolerance \In*tol"er*ance\ ([i^]n*t[o^]l"[~e]r*ans), n. [L.
intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F.
intol['e]rance.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Lack of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
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2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to
others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of
worship, and the like; lack of patience and forbearance;
illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a
religious sect.
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These few restrictions, I hope, are no great
stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions
of despotism. --Burke.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "intolerance":
ageism, balkiness, bias, bigotry, bullheadedness, classism,
determination, discrimination, doggedness, dogmatism, fanaticism,
fixed mind, hardheadedness, headstrongness, illiberality,
inflexible will, intoleration, mulishness, narrow-mindedness,
nonendurance, obduracy, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness,
overzealousness, partiality, perseverance, pertinacity,
pigheadedness, prejudice, racialism, racism, restiveness,
self-will, sexism, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, strongheadness,
stubbornness, sulkiness, sullenness, tenaciousness, tenacity,
uncharitableness, uncooperativeness, unforbearance, ungenerousness,
unregenerateness, willfulness, xenophobia
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