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[in-tol-er-uhns]

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noun

lack of toleration; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.

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:
1755–65; < Latin intolerantia. See intolerant, -ance

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Example Sentences

Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest lactose.

We believe equity for all must be demonstrated by intolerance of acts of discrimination or belittlement.

Let's not set a precedent of intolerance and censorship to save purported feelings.

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Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest lactose.

We believe equity for all must be demonstrated by intolerance of acts of discrimination or belittlement.

Let's not set a precedent of intolerance and censorship to save purported feelings.

He expressed his anger and his intolerance of injustices within the black community.

Those on the brink of starvation, he notes, would not have been able to survive the diarrhea that lactose intolerance brings.

Intolerance for pollutants and species extinction will be high.

Heat intolerance often produces a feeling of being overheated and can cause heavy sweating.

One thing they fail to consider is that it actually could be that as diversity increases on a campus so does intolerance.

They consistently exhibit the intolerance of which they so readily accuse others.

It's all about intolerance for dogs and their body parts and their behavior.

It turns out my problem was a simple, but dangerous food intolerance causing widespread inflammation in my muscles and nerves.

Abnormal results may be a sign of lactose intolerance.

In my experience, intolerance is present at the student, as well as the faculty level.

Now, however, it is enjoying unhappy fame: as the centre of an experiment in multiculturalism wrecked by intolerance.

But one cannot respect beliefs which amount to both intolerance and a complete disregard for consistency.

Cold intolerance can be a symptom of a metabolic problem.

Racism, intolerance and bigotry are fermented in the petri-dish of anything goes.

The present political developments are a reaction on this intolerance.

It requires quite a bit of courage to face this relentless onslaught of intolerance.

Hereditary fructose intolerance is a disorder in which a person lacks the protein needed to break down fructose.

The only thing a tolerant society cannot tolerate is intolerance.

It is religious intolerance raising it's ugly head all for the sake of some ungodly lustful men who yearn for power and money.

It is that which is chiefly responsible for the charge of bigotry and religious intolerance that is brought against them.

Every week produces a mind-boggling example of intolerance or wackiness.

Food intolerance means that sometimes a specific food can trigger a migraine and sometimes not.

How is this form of intolerance any better than the intolerance of believers.

As for those writers who attribute the recent election losses to racism, jingoism, intolerance etc.

We have another intolerance infecting society and that is that of many secularists toward religion.

Nesting that it's intolerance that creates problems when people aren't comfortable with each other's differences.

Some of it could be warped to promote homophobia and intolerance of people who don't toe the line.

The reasons are to be found in a political system that encourages violence and intolerance.

Orthodoxy and intolerance in the economics profession helped plunge the world into the deepest recession since.

The state should now take the lead in quieting the voices of intolerance and imposing sensible controls on guns.

Intolerance is simply ignorance or the inability accept an individuals choices.

Another thing is that intolerance and dictatorship go hand in hand as well, especially in peacetime.

It shames civilization to still be plagued with the blood-thirstiness that religious intolerance breeds.

The intolerance of one another is due to some psychological disorder that has been lying dormant for a great many years.

Since then, a backlash of fear and intolerance has erupted.

Experience suggests that this sort of intolerance can all too easily give rise to political violence.

But baseball has gone overboard with its intolerance of speech it does not care for.

We the people will not be fooled by such campaign of intolerance and hate.

The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you.

Diagnosis, symptoms, and calcium intakes of individuals with self-reported lactose intolerance.

Some cancer patients become unable to digest dairy products, which is called lactose intolerance.

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World English Dictionary

intolerant (ɪnˈtɒlərənt)

—*adj* (foll by of)
1.	lacking respect for practices and beliefs other than one's own
2.	not able or willing to tolerate or endure: intolerant of noise

in'tolerance

—n

in'tolerantly

—*adv*

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Medical Dictionary

intolerance in·tol·er·ance (ĭn-tŏl'ər-əns)
n.
Extreme sensitivity or allergy to a drug, food, or other substance.

in·tol'er·ant adj.

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"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."

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