intolerance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun impatience with annoyances
    • his intolerance of interruptions
  2. noun unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs

WordNet

In*tol"er*ance noun
Etymology
L. intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F. intolérance.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913