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| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | open-mindedness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, concession, endurance, forbearance, freedom, good will, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, license, magnanimity, mercy, patience, permission, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, broad-mindedness, lenience, lenity, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, mercifulness, permissiveness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | bias, disapproval, intolerance, prejudice, narrow-mindedness |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | open-mindedness |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, endurance, good will, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, patience, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, charitableness, generousness, lenity, toleration |
| Antonyms: | bias, bigotry, disapproval, intolerance, prejudice |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortitude, grit |
| Synonyms: | endurance, guts*, opposition, patience, resilience, resistance, stamina, staying power*, strength, vigor, hardiness, hardness, steadfastness, steadiness, sufferance, toughness |
| Antonyms: | intolerance, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | fortitude |
| Synonyms: | endurance, grit, guts*, resilience, resistance, stamina, strength, vigor, hardiness, steadfastness, toughness |
| Antonyms: | intolerance, weakness, proneness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun3 |
| Definition: | resistance |
| Synonyms: | immunity, imperviousness, insusceptibility, unsusceptibility |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, endurance, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, mercy, mildness, moderation, tenderness, tolerance, caritas, equitableness, justness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, soft-heartedness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | no mercy |
| Main Entry: | equality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | similarity, balance; egalitarianism |
| Synonyms: | civil rights, correspondence, equilibrium, equivalence, evenness, fair shake*, fairness, identity, impartiality, likeness, par, parity, sameness, tolerance, uniformity, adequation, commensurateness, coordination, equal opportunity, equatability, equipoise, fair play, fair practice, homology, isonomy, parallelism |
| Antonyms: | difference, disproportion, dissimilarity, imbalance, inequality, unfairness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | candor, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, due, duty, equity, fair shake*, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, moderation, propriety, right, righteousness, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity, charitableness, disinterestedness, equitableness, exactitude, fair-mindedness, give and take, justness, legitimacy, open-mindedness, rationality, reasonableness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | inequity, injustice, partiality, wrong, unfairness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forbearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resisting, avoidance |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, endurance, fortitude, moderation, patience, resignation, restraint, self-control, temperance, tolerance, going easy on, living with, longanimity, patientness, refraining |
| Antonyms: | continuation, indulgence, involvement, use, pursual |
| Main Entry: | good will/goodwill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points*, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, helpfulness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity, good side of, right side of |
| Antonyms: | meanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
| Synonyms: | allowance, appeasement, attention, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, intemperance, kindness, leniency, partiality, patience, pleasing, privilege, satisfaction, service, tolerance, understanding, babying, coddling, favoring, fondling, immoderation, intemperateness, kowtowing, lenience, pampering, permissiveness, petting, placating, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, spoiling, toadying, toleration, treating |
| Antonyms: | abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, leniency, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, benignancy, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, forbearance, fortitude, grit*, guts*, heart, humility, intestinal fortitude*, leniency, long-suffering, moderation, moxie*, passiveness, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch*, staying power*, stoicism, submission, tolerance, yielding, even temper, gutsiness, imperturbability, legs, longanimity, nonresistance, passivity, sufferance, toleration |
| Notes: | patience means the capacity to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming angry or upset; patients are people who requires medical care |
| Antonyms: | agitation, frustration, impatience, intolerance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | permission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization, consent |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, agreement, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, avowal, carte blanche*, concession, concurrence, dispensation, endorsement, freedom, imprimatur, indulgence, leave, liberty, license, okay, permit, privilege, promise, recognition, rubber stamp*, sanction, tolerance, verification, warrant, canonization, condonance, condonation, empowerment, letting, sanctification, stamp of approval, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | denial, prohibition, veto |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stamina |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength, vigor |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, endurance, energy, force, fortitude, grit*, guts*, heart, intestinal fortitude*, moxie*, power, resilience, resistance, starch*, staying power, tolerance, vim, vitality, zip*, gutsiness, indefatigability, legs, lustiness, power of endurance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | apathy, lack, laziness, lethargy, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | staying power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stamina |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, endurance, fortitude, grit*, guts*, heart, intestinal fortitude*, resilience, tolerance, vitality, gutsiness, legs, power of endurance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | good will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, goodwill, helpfulness, kindness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity |
| Main Entry: | leniency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forbearance |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, kindness, mercy, tolerance, lenience, lenity |
| Main Entry: | kid gloves |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tact and gentleness |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, gentleness, leniency, refinement, tact, tolerance, fastidiousness, gentle handling, good taste, kid-glove treatment, light hand, light rein, velvet glove |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
| Synonyms: | ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, fortitude, grit, guts, heart*, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch*, strength, submission, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, vitality, will, forebearance, gutsiness, holding up, pertinacity, sufferance, toleration, undergoing, withstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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