intolerance

Borrowed from French intolérance, itself from in- (“not”) +‎ tolérance or borrowed from Latin intolerantia (“insolence, insufferableness; (very rare) intolerance”). By surface analysis, in- +‎ tolerance.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/

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intolerance (countable and uncountable, plural intolerances)

1. (uncountable) The state of being intolerant. [from 1765]

   Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.

2. (countable, medicine) Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it. [from the 20th c.]

   lactose intolerance

• (medicine): food intolerance

• allergy

• crenelation