| Main Entry: | toleration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tolerance |
Synonyms: |
altruism, benevolence, broad-mindedness, charitableness, charity, clemency, compassion, concession, endurance, forbearance, freedom, good will, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, license, magnanimity, mercifulness, mercy, patience, permission, permissiveness, sensitivity, sufferance, sympathy, understanding |
| Main Entry: | allowance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discount; concession |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, admission, advantage, cut, deduction, rebate, reduction, sanction, sufferance, toleration |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
Synonyms: |
caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration |
Antonyms: |
no mercy |
| Main Entry: | condescension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disdain, superiority |
Synonyms: |
airs, civility, deference, haughtiness, loftiness, lordliness, patronage, patronizing attitude, superciliousness, toleration |
Antonyms: |
friendliness, humility, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
Synonyms: |
ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, forebearance, fortitude, grit, guts, gutsiness, heart*, holding up, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch, strength, submission, sufferance, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, toleration, undergoing, vitality, will, withstanding |
| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
Synonyms: |
allowance, appeasement, attention, babying, coddling, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, favoring, fondling, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness, kindness, kowtowing, lenience, leniency, pampering, partiality, patience, permissiveness, petting, placating, pleasing, privilege, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, satisfaction, service, spoiling, toadying, tolerance, toleration, treating, understanding |
Antonyms: |
abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | moderation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temperance |
Synonyms: |
balance, calmness, composure, constraint, coolness, dispassionateness, equanimity, fairness, forbearance, golden mean, judiciousness, justice, justness, lenity, measure, mildness, moderateness, patience, poise, quiet, reasonableness, restraint, sedateness, sedation, sobriety, steadiness, toleration |
Antonyms: |
extreme, indulgence, intemperance, intensity, outrageousness, severity, unlimitedness, violence, wildness |
| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
Synonyms: |
backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, even temper, forbearance, fortitude, grit, guts*, gutsiness, heart, humility, imperturbability, intestinal fortitude, legs, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, moderation, moxie*, nonresistance, passiveness, passivity, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch, staying power, stoicism, submission, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, yielding |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condescension |
Synonyms: |
civility, cronyism, deference, deigning, disdain, insolence, patronization, patronizing, stooping, sufferance, toleration |
Antonyms: |
humility, modesty |
| Main Entry: | permission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization, consent |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, agreement, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, avowal, canonization, carte blanche, concession, concurrence, condonance, condonation, dispensation, empowerment, endorsement, freedom, imprimatur, indulgence, leave, letting, liberty, license, okay, permit, privilege, promise, recognition, rubber stamp, sanctification, sanction, stamp of approval, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, verification, warrant |
Antonyms: |
denial, prohibition, veto |