Empathy vs. Tolerance
Empathynoun
Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
Empathynoun
Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
Empathynoun
A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
Empathynoun
understanding and entering into another's feelings
Empathy
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states.
Tolerancenoun
The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
Tolerancenoun
(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
Tolerancenoun
(uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
Tolerancenoun
(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
Tolerancenoun
(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
Tolerancenoun
The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.
Tolerancenoun
The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.
Tolerancenoun
The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.
Tolerancenoun
Capability of growth in more or less shade.
Tolerancenoun
the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight, hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or electrical devices or operations; - caklled also allowance
Tolerancenoun
the capacity to resist the deleterious action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to anitbiotics.
Tolerancenoun
the acquired inability to respond with an immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism normally responds; - called also immunotolerance, immunological tolerance, or immune tolerance. Such tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen (low-zone tolerance), or to a large amount of an antigen (high-zone tolerance).
Tolerancenoun
the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
Tolerancenoun
a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
Tolerancenoun
the act of tolerating something
Tolerancenoun
willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
Tolerancenoun
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
Tolerancenoun
the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with
Tolerancenoun
the capacity to endure continued subjection to something such as a drug or environmental conditions without adverse reaction
Tolerancenoun
diminution in the body's response to a drug after continued use
Tolerancenoun
an allowable amount of variation of a specified quantity, especially in the dimensions of a machine or part
