toleration
1. a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations - all people should practice toleration and live together in peace • Syn: acceptance, sufferance • Derivationally related forms: suffer (for: sufferance), acceptant (for: acceptance), accept (for: acceptance), tolerate • Hypernyms: permissiveness, tolerance • Hyponyms: self acceptance 2. official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion) • Derivationally related forms: tolerate • Topics: religion, faith, religious belief • Hypernyms: license, permission, permit
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