intolerance

See also: intolérance

English

Etymology

From French intolérance, from Latin intolerantia.

Morphologically in- +‎ tolerance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

intolerance (countable and uncountable, plural intolerances)

1. (uncountable) The state of being intolerant.

   Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.

2. (countable, medicine) Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.

   lactose intolerance

Hyponyms

• (medicine): food intolerance

Derived terms

• heat intolerance
• lactose intolerance
• systemic exertion intolerance disease

Translations

the state of being intolerant

• Bulgarian: нетърпимост (bg) f (netǎrpimost), нетолерантност (bg) f (netolerantnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不寬容 / 不宽容 (bù kuānróng)

• Czech: nesnášenlivost (cs) f
• Dutch: onverdraagzaamheid (nl) f, intolerantie (nl) f
• Finnish: suvaitsemattomuus (fi), intoleranssi (fi)
• French: intolérance (fr) f
• German: Intoleranz (de) f
• Hungarian: intolerancia (hu), türelmetlenség (hu)
• Icelandic: umburðarleysi n
• Indonesian: intoleransi
• Irish: éadulaingt f
• Italian: intolleranza (it) f
• Japanese: 不寛容 (ふかんよう, fukan'yō)
• Latin: intolerantia f
• Malay: intolerans
• Malayalam: അസഹിഷ്ണുത (ml) (asahiṣṇuta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: intoleranse m

  Nynorsk: intoleranse m

• Polish: nietolerancja (pl) f
• Portuguese: intolerância (pt) f
• Romanian: intoleranţă (ro) f
• Russian: нетерпи́мость (ru) f (neterpímostʹ)
• Sanskrit: अक्षान्ति (sa) f (akṣānti)
• Spanish: intolerancia (es) f
• Swedish: intolerans (sv) c
• Ukrainian: нетерпи́мість f (neterpýmistʹ)

extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; allergy

• Bulgarian: алергия (bg) f (alergija), нетърпимост (bg) f (netǎrpimost)
• Dutch: intolerantie (nl) f
• Finnish: intoleranssi (fi)
• German: Intoleranz (de) f
• Hungarian: intolerancia (hu)
• Icelandic: óþol n
• Italian: intolleranza (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: intoleranse m

  Nynorsk: intoleranse m

• Polish: nietolerancja (pl) f
• Portuguese: intolerância (pt) f
• Romanian: intoleranţă (ro) f
• Spanish: intolerancia (es) f
• Swedish: intolerans (sv) c

See also

• allergy

Anagrams

• crenelation