<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a fair, respectful, and permissive attitude or policy toward people whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one’s own or from those of the majority; freedom from bigotry and from an insistence on conformity.</li><li>Synonyms: impartiality, liberality.</li><li>interest in, concern for, and openness toward ideas, opinions, practices, etc., that are different from one’s own; a liberal, undogmatic attitude.</li><li>the act or capacity of enduring; endurance.</li><li>Synonyms: forbearance, patience.</li><li>the act of passively allowing something, especially something wrong, by failing to prevent or stop it; toleration.</li><li>Medicine/Medical, Immunology, Biology: the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, pollutant, or biological stressor.</li><li>Machinery: the permissible range of variation in a dimension of an object.</li><li>Compare allowance.</li><li>a permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coin, owing to the difficulty of securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.</li></ul>