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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
intolerance
    n 1: impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of
         interruptions"
    2: unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in
       opinions or beliefs [ant: tolerance]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Intolerance \In*tol"er*ance\ ([i^]n*t[o^]l"[~e]r*ans), n. [L.
   intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F.
   intol['e]rance.]
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   1. Lack of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
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   2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to
      others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of
      worship, and the like; lack of patience and forbearance;
      illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a
      religious sect.
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            These few restrictions, I hope, are no great
            stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions
            of despotism.                         --Burke.
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Thesaurus Results for intolerance:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ageism, balkiness, bias, bigotry, bullheadedness, classism, determination, discrimination, doggedness, dogmatism, fanaticism, fixed mind, hardheadedness, headstrongness, illiberality, inflexible will, intoleration, mulishness, narrow-mindedness, nonendurance, obduracy, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, overzealousness, partiality, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, prejudice, racialism, racism, restiveness, self-will, sexism, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, strongheadness, stubbornness, sulkiness, sullenness, tenaciousness, tenacity, uncharitableness, uncooperativeness, unforbearance, ungenerousness, unregenerateness, willfulness, xenophobia
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