- The quality or condition of being intolerant; lack of tolerance.
- Medicine. Extreme sensitivity or allergy to a drug, food, or other substance: lactose intolerance.
intolerance
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- Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion: bigotry, prejudice. See like/dislike.
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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.
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IN BRIEF: Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
— Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian spiritual and political leader.
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"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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Intolerance is an antonym to "tolerance". The term may refer to one of the following.
- Medical/biological conditions
In medical/biological context the term is commonly used synonymously with "sensitivity", e.g., "salycylate sensitivity", "cold sensitivity", etc.
- 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
- Animal intolerance
- Social/psychological/political
- Religious intolerance
- Ethnic intolerance
- Ambiguity intolerance, a tendency to perceive ambiguity as a psychological discomfort
- Titles
- Intolerance (film), a 1916 film by D.W. Griffith
- Intolerance, a 1984 album by Tik & Tok
- Intolerance, a song by Tool from their 1993 album Undertow
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