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Intolerance

//ɪnˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being intolerant. uncountable

    "Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil."

  2. 2
    impatience with annoyances wordnet
  3. 3
    Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it. countable

    "lactose intolerance"

  4. 4
    unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs wordnet

Etymology

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

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