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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTOL'ERANCE, n. [from intolerant.] Want of toleration; the not enduring at all or not suffering to exist without persecution; as the intolerance of a prince or a church towards a religious sect.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"
2: unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs [ant: tolerance]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1765 1. the quality or state of being intolerant 2. exceptional sensitivity (as to a drug); specifically inability to properly metabolize or absorb a substance

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intolerance In*tol"er*ance, n. [L. intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F. intol['e]rance.] 1. Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light. 2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect. These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism. --Burke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Intolerance is unwillingness to let other people act in a different way or hold different opinions from you. ...his intolerance of any opinion other than his own. ? tolerance N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Bigotry, narrowness, proscriptive or persecuting spirit, want of toleration, want of forbearance. 2. Non-endurance, inability to bear, rejection.

Moby Thesaurus

ageism, balkiness, bias, bigotry, bullheadedness, classism, determination, discrimination, doggedness, dogmatism, fanaticism, fixed mind, hardheadedness, headstrongness, illiberality, inflexible will, intoleration, mulishness, narrow-mindedness, nonendurance, obduracy, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, overzealousness, partiality, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, prejudice, racialism, racism, restiveness, self-will, sexism, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, strongheadness, stubbornness, sulkiness, sullenness, tenaciousness, tenacity, uncharitableness, uncooperativeness, unforbearance, ungenerousness, unregenerateness, willfulness, xenophobia