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Tolerance or toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally.
Economics, business, and politicsEditLife sciencesEdit
- Desiccation tolerance, the ability of an organism to endure extreme dryness
- Drug tolerance or physiological tolerance, a decrease in the response to a substance due to previous exposure
- Immune tolerance or immunological tolerance, by which the immune system does not attack an antigen
- Low frustration tolerance, a concept in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
- Pain tolerance, the maximum level of pain that a person is able to tolerate
- Shade tolerance, a plant's abilities to tolerate low light levels
- Disease tolerance or tolerance to infection - one of the mechanisms host organisms can use to fight against parasites, pathogens or herbivores that attack the host.frustration
Physical sciencesEditOther usesEdit
- Paradox of tolerance, is a problem or paradox, described by Karl Popper, that if a society is tolerant without limit, it may be seized or destroyed by the nontolerant; a rough converse is the problem that if a tolerant person is antagonistic toward intolerance, they may be intolerant of it
- Tolerance Monument, an outdoor sculpture near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem
- Tolerance (film), a 2000 Brazilian drama film
- Tolerance (sculpture), a 2011 sculpture by Jaume Plensa