Tolerance

Tolerance or toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally.

Biology and medicine

Desiccation tolerance, the ability of an organism to endure extreme dryness
Drug tolerance or physiological tolerance, a decrease in the response to a substance due to previous exposure
- Alcohol tolerance
- Multidrug tolerance or antibiotic tolerance, the ability of a disease-causing microorganism to resist killing by antimicrobials
Immune tolerance or immunological tolerance, by which the immune system does not attack an antigen
- Central tolerance, a mechanism by which newly developing T cells and B cells are rendered non-reactive to self
- Immune tolerance in pregnancy or gestational/maternal immune tolerance
Low frustration tolerance, a concept in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
Pain tolerance, the maximum level of pain that a person is able to tolerate
Shade tolerance, a plant's abilities to tolerate low light levels

Tolerance group, a way to ensure employees do not exceed their authority in financial transactions in an ERP system
Toleration Party, a historic political party active in Connecticut
Tolerant Systems, the former name of Veritas Software
Tolerance tax, a historic tax that was levied against Jews in Hungary

Engineering tolerance, permissible limit(s) of variation in an object
- Tolerance analysis, the study of accumulated variation in mechanical parts and assemblies
- Tolerance coning, a budget of all tolerances that affect a particular parameter

Paradox of tolerance, the problem that a tolerant person is antagonistic toward intolerance, hence intolerant of it
Tolerance Monument, an outdoor sculpture near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem, Israel.