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toleration

toleration

6 5.1
Accepting people, beliefs, or actions that are different from your own
  • noun
  • /ˌtɒləˈreɪʃən/
translation icon : tolerancia
  • The law guarantees toleration for various religious practices, allowing everyone to worship freely.
  • religious toleration
  • liberal toleration
  • justification for toleration

So toleration is the, is the response to it.

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Examples

  • Locke's classic, A Letter Concerning Toleration, defended religious toleration with all the characteristic liberal arguments.

    Academic text (1999)
  • I have tried to show, as against Sandel, that liberal toleration embodies a coherent and consistent doctrine.

    Academic text (1999)
  • How are we to understand this case about toleration and freedom of speech?

  • Camps also require toleration by their host countries, and that tolerance may not last forever.

  • At their heart, of course, are the core values of liberty and toleration for pluralism.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The issue of the security of the Protestant religion and of the toleration of religious dissenters had been resolved.

  • We can recapture the significance of liberalism by returning to its defense of religious toleration.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Hence, one often observes a moderate regime policy of toleration toward religion and atheism.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Openness delights in different possibilities; toleration, in the strict sense, accepts them only grudgingly.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In a diverse society, toleration is essential for peaceful coexistence among different cultures and beliefs.

Synonyms

tolerance
vstoleration
160 3.7

Willingness to accept beliefs or lifestyles different from your own

is the practiced allowance that can be official or personal
acceptance
vstoleration
101 2.9

Willingness to be friendly to people and ideas that are different

is neutral permission or practice rather than a warm welcome
sufferance
vstoleration
  • Archaic
3 9.1

A patient acceptance of something unpleasant or difficult

is allowance or approval rather than mere endurance
tolerationism
vstoleration
9.5

Allowing people to have different beliefs and practices

is about the act of allowing people or beliefs personally or officially

Antonyms

discrimination
  • Offensive
535 3.5

Unfair treatment of people because of their race, age, or sex

50 4.6

Not willing to accept small annoyances or people with different views

How Tolerant

acceptance
101 2.9
openness
35 3.9
toleration
6 5.1
intolerance
50 4.6

Surface Forms

toleration singular
tolerations plural

Morphology

toleration = tolerate (transparent) = tolerate + ion

Standard noun formation from the verb 'tolerate' with the suffix '-ion', yielding the act or state of tolerating.

Etymology

Toleration comes from the Latin word tolerare, which means 'to bear' or 'to endure', and you can see the same idea in the English words tolerate and tolerant. So, toleration is about allowing or accepting people, beliefs, or actions that are different from your own.