intolerance
intolerance Lexical Profile
intolerance Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own.
"The historian examined how religious intolerance shaped political conflicts throughout the seventeenth century."
An inability to eat a particular food or take a particular drug without adverse physical effects, or an abnormal sensitivity to an environmental condition.
"She switched to plant-based milk after her doctor diagnosed her with a severe lactose intolerance."
Word Nuance & Usage
In medicine, food 'intolerance' (such as lactose intolerance) is distinct from a food 'allergy': an intolerance is a digestive inability to process a substance properly, whereas an allergy involves an acute immune system reaction.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin intolerantia ('impatience, unendurableness'), from intolerans, combining the privative prefix in- ('not') with tolerans, the present participle of tolerare ('to bear, endure, or sustain').