toleration
toleration Lexical Profile
toleration Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The practice or policy of allowing people to hold or express views, beliefs, or behaviors that differ from one's own or from the prevailing norm, especially in religious or political matters.
"The Edict of Nantes was a landmark royal decree that granted a significant degree of religious toleration to French Protestants."
Word Nuance & Usage
While often used interchangeably with 'tolerance', 'toleration' typically refers specifically to the formal, legal, or political practice of allowing dissenting religious or ideological groups to exist without persecution, whereas 'tolerance' more broadly describes a personal attitude of open-mindedness or physical endurance.
• Rhymes for toleration
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 16th century from Latin 'toleratio' ('an enduring, sustaining'), a noun of action from the verb 'tolerare' ('to bear, endure, tolerate').