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noun

Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion: bigotry, prejudice. See like/dislike.

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Quotes:

"Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art." - Wallace Stevens

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it." - George Santayana

"Intolerance is evidence of impotence." - Aleister Crowley

"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now." - Salman Rushdie

"Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state." - Samuel Davies

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Inability to withstand or consume; inability to absorb or metabolize nutrients.

• drug i. — the state of reacting to the normal pharmacological doses of a drug with the signs of overdosage.

Inability to endure or withstand.

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Intolerance or Intolerant may refer to:

Medical/biological

• Intolerance, a synonym of sensitivity (physiology)
  • Drug intolerance
  • Food intolerance
  • Lactose intolerance
  • Hereditary fructose intolerance
  • Sucrose intolerance
  • Lysinuric protein intolerance
  • Citric acid intolerance
  • Salicylate intolerance, also known as aspirin intolerance
  • Lysinuric protein intolerance
  • Cold intolerance
  • Orthostatic intolerance
  • Exercise intolerance

Social/psychological/political

• Religious intolerance
• Ethnic intolerance (disambiguation)
• Ambiguity intolerance, a tendency to perceive ambiguity as a psychological discomfort
• Bigotry, prejudiced intolerance towards others' beliefs

Media

• Intolerance (film), a 1916 film by D.W. Griffith
• Intolerance (1996 film), an Italian film
• Intolerance, a 1984 album by Tik & Tok
• "Intolerance", a song by the band Tool from Undertow (Tool album)
• Intolerant (band), a thrash metal band

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