as in patience
the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining
showed great tolerance in dealing with the child's tantrums
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Developing stress tolerance skills and habits should be a key part of everyone’s routine, ensuring you’re equipped to handle both everyday and unexpected stressors.
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Odor and the French Social Imagination is essentially a book about the declining tolerance for strong smells in 18th and 19th-century France.
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The mode's return reminds everyone that Tesla continues to test the limits of driver-assist technology and public tolerance for it.
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Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 29 Oct. 2025
Succeeding on OnlyFans in 2025 often means having a high tolerance for controversy, negative attention, the willingness to troll, and an ability to flip tsunamis of online haters into fans.
—Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Odor and the French Social Imagination is essentially a book about the declining tolerance for strong smells in 18th and 19th-century France.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
The mode's return reminds everyone that Tesla continues to test the limits of driver-assist technology and public tolerance for it.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolerance
patience
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Musically, Lee took on the air of a woman revealing intimate truths about herself one year at a time, shedding layers as a way of rewarding patience with honesty, no matter how brutal.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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Either way, patience goes a long way.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Tolerance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolerance. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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