intolerance
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
The English word “intolerance” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- The state of being intolerant.
- Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.
Etymology
Borrowed from French intolérance, itself from in- (“not”) + tolérance or borrowed from Latin intolerantia (“insolence, insufferableness; (very rare) intolerance”). By surface analysis, in- + tolerance.
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