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intolerance
[ in-tol-er-uhns ]
noun
- lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect opinions or beliefs contrary to one's own.
- unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect persons of a different social group, especially members of a minority group.
- incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure:
intolerance to heat.
- abnormal sensitivity or allergy to a food, drug, etc.
- an intolerant act.
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Origin of intolerance1
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Example Sentences
Normalize calling out microaggressions and intervening rather than standing by during incidents of intolerance.
“The scapegoating and targeting of a minority group, for political purposes, feeds intolerance and discrimination, damaging all of society,” said Bachelet.
Instead she worried about creeping intolerance now within her own party.
Systemic intolerance of the trans community has plagued this country for too long and this presidency has done nothing but further that.
Each of these new ways of living are met with resistance and intolerance by others in the book.
The researchers found that the fake stuff drives the kind of glucose intolerance that can lead to diabetes in human.
The indications vary, but progressive poor response and medication intolerance are a few possible justifications.
Food intolerance occurs when your body is unable to digest a certain component of a food, such as the protein called gluten.
But you should not have “acceptance” fed by feelings of futility; your response should be intolerance of intolerance.
Anyone who suffers from gluten sensitivity, intolerance, or celiac disease knows how troublesome the problem is.
Why is religious intolerance so much more fierce and bitter than political intolerance?
It is more remarkable that there was so much toleration in the last century, than that there was also so much intolerance.
Religious intolerance had driven the most industrious of the working classes to find a refuge in Holland or England.
He believed him, with that cheerful intolerance which a certain type of mind affects, capable of anything.
The spirit of the local Government and of the clergy that controlled it was intolerance.
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