n.

1. The quality or condition of being intolerant; lack of tolerance.
2. Medicine. Extreme sensitivity or allergy to a drug, food, or other substance: lactose intolerance.

noun

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

n

Inability to endure or withstand.

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.

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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