Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being intolerant; lack of tolerance.
- noun Medicine Extreme sensitivity or allergy to a drug, food, or other substance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being intolerant; incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure; non-endurance: as, intolerance of heat or cold.
- noun Lack of toleration; indisposition to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; bigoted opposition or resistance to dissent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of capacity to endure.
- noun The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; lack of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable the state of being
intolerant - noun countable An intolerant word or action
- noun countable, medicine extreme
sensitivity to afood ordrug ;allergy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs
- noun impatience with annoyances
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Examples
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This intolerance is the result of the neutrality of Canadians in their attitude toward the basic responsibility to the nation, to the world, to the people of the world, and to God.
The Spirit of '67 1968
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This kind of intolerance is what makes today's Liberals (in power and on message boards) incredibly hypocritical.
Democrats point to 'Smoking Tweet' in GOP stalling health care 2009
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Perhaps your own ratiophobia and intolerance is at issue, eh?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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Lactose intolerance is a product of well-known Darwinian rules.
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Perhaps your own ratiophobia and intolerance is at issue, eh?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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Michael B: Perhaps your own ratiophobia and intolerance is at issue, eh?
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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Lactose intolerance is a product of well-known Darwinian rules.
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And this climate of increasing intolerance is not confined to newspaper columnists by any means.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The highest incidence of dairy intolerance is in Asian groups.
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When we talk about intolerance, is racism really the issue when the problem is your inability to perform your only job function?
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