Used in a Sentence

intolerance

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for intolerance.

Editorial note

The only intolerance society should promote is the intolerance of intolerant beliefs.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(uncountable) The state of being intolerant.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of intolerance gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable) The state of being intolerant.

noun

(countable, medicine) Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for intolerance.

noun

(uncountable) The state of being intolerant.

noun

(countable, medicine) Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.

Example sentences

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The only intolerance society should promote is the intolerance of intolerant beliefs.

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And the correlation between gluten intolerance and use of facebook is something that nobody is talking about.

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But abuse is often misrepresented as honesty, and intolerance of abuse is often misrepresented as an inability to accept useful criticism.

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Most of the self-diagnosed gluten intolerance seems to be nothing but a social media fad.

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I had a friend that didn't have celiac disease, but genuinely had some form of gluten intolerance.

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One should not underestimate the importance of this kind of intolerance.

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Sometimes it is just intolerance of disagreement, or simple sadism.

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Some see the First Amendment as intolerant of intolerance.

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But to make the blanket statement that intolerance doesn't exist is misinformed and denigrates the very real problem that a small subset of the population does have.

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I was only merely pointing out that reporting an atheist page is simply the result of intolerance and not of an intention to harm.

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And I'm just not sure I can get down with your intolerance.

12

Filter bubbles are dangerous, limiting, and foster intolerance.

Quote examples

1

Fear insulin resistance and glucose intolerance.” You do not state however how you would advise someone to avoid insulin resistance and glucose intolerance.

2

(Submitted title was "Myth of gluten intolerance".) We've changed it to something that uses neutral language from the article.

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Half the point of the article is that genuine gluten intolerance is not that common, for starters, so there probably isn't a simple causal relationship that "X = bad, X is on wheat, therefore wheat is bad for us now".

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To consider function types, or unjustified assumptions about bitfield unions, or use of parentheses to control nesting of arrays and pointers in declaration "strange" one must be averse to the C language to the point of intolerance.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use intolerance in a sentence?

The only intolerance society should promote is the intolerance of intolerant beliefs.

What does intolerance mean?

(uncountable) The state of being intolerant.

What part of speech is intolerance?

intolerance is commonly used as noun.