Tolerance vs. Patience — What's the Difference?

The ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with

Patience (or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties.

The capacity to endure continued subjection to something such as a drug or environmental conditions without adverse reaction

The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient

An allowable amount of variation of a specified quantity, especially in the dimensions of a machine or part

Chiefly British, Games Solitaire.

The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.

The quality of being patient.

Leeway for variation from a standard.

Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.

The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.

The capacity to endure hardship or pain.

The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.

Physiological resistance to a toxin.

Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.

Diminution in the physiological response to a drug that occurs after continued use, necessitating larger doses to produce a given response.

Sufferance; permission.

The ability to digest or metabolize a food, drug, or other substance or compound

A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.

Solitaire.

Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunologic reaction.

Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

The ability of an organism to resist or survive infection by a parasitic or pathogenic organism.

A card game played by one person

The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.

(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.

(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.

(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.

The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.

Capability of growth in more or less shade.

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

The capacity to resist the deleterious action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to anitbiotics.

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).

The power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions

A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

The act of tolerating something

Willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits