'Intolerance' definitions:
Definition of 'intolerance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"
noun
Unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs [ant: tolerance]
Definition of 'Intolerance'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intolerance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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