intolerance

The state of being intolerant.

Noun

  1. The state of being intolerant.
    • Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.
    • 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...
  2. Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.
    • lactose intolerance

Origin

Borrowed from French intolérance, itself from in- (“not”) + tolérance or borrowed from Latin intolerantia (“insolence, insufferableness; (very rare) intolerance”). By surface analysis, in- + tolerance.

Forms

intolerances

Hyponyms

food intolerance

Related

allergy

Derived

heat intolerance lactose intolerance systemic exertion intolerance disease