Tolerance vs. Understanding — What's the Difference?

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

Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding.

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

The ability by which one understands; intelligence

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

The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension

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

Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion

Leeway for variation from a standard.

A usually implicit agreement between two or more people or groups

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

A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy

The capacity to endure hardship or pain.

Characterized by or having good sense or compassion

Physiological resistance to a toxin.

The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.

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

(countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.

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

(countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.

Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.

(countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.

Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunologic reaction.

An informal contract; mutual agreement.

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

A reconciliation of differences.

The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

(uncountable) Sympathy.

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

Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance.

(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.

(dated) Knowing; skilful.

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

Present participle of understand

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

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

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

The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

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

An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

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

The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.

Capability of growth in more or less shade.

Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.

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 cognitive condition of someone who understands;

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 statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;

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).

An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion;

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

The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;

A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy;

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