tolerance

1. Your ability to stand something. The more you consume drugs or medicine, the higher your tolerance becomes, and the more you need to consume to feel the same effect.

2. A self-destructive concept that cannot work on a global scale. Tolerance as a concept was created during the Age of Enlightenment, thanks to multiple factors in Europe, namely secularization, Christianity (admittedly the church didn't help willingly, but the fundamental ideology helped) and the many quarrels of intellectuals at the time. Unfortunately, these factors did not touch the rest of the world in equal scale, which means tolerance is not equally valued everywhere else. By tolerating the intolerant, tolerance is destroyed, hence becoming self-destructive.

3. How easily you stand other people. Tolerance itself here might not be as much a trait as it is reliant on the other person's personality (or lack thereof).

Person A: My religion states that women and infidels have no rights. Tolerance is not a value we are concerned with.
Person B: Tolerance is a value to us, so I tolerate your intolerance. Maybe forcing you to be tolerant is intolerant of us?
Person C: Don't be retarded.

by Carlão the Pimpslayer June 4, 2019

liberal tolerance

A meme made up by right wing inbreds because liberals hurt their fee-fees.

"Liberal Tolerance" the meth popper whines, because he won't tolerate my bigotry while I wave my confederate flag."

by Burn Mar-a-Lago January 28, 2017

zero tolerance

A punishment by the inane for the inane.

When you need a pair of needlenose pliers and you use a hammer... that's zero tolerance.

by Brian X October 8, 2003

tolerance

Previously similar to "acceptance" but now used to describe any socially acceptable prejudice.

Some people profess their "tolerance" of homosexuals but do not think they should be given the same legal rights as heterosexuals.

by cracked March 19, 2009

Zero Tolerance

Its a term used to describe a person who likes to take it in the butthole, yet they manage to keep that ass very very tight.

Damn, that Amber has Zero Tolerance.

by pastor rick March 13, 2009

Complain tolerance

The amount of pain a person can take without complaining about it.

Is he still bitching about the finale of HIMYM? What a low complain tolerance.

by Loewe98 May 20, 2014

Spice Tolerance

The capacity of your conservative silent generation relatives from a town with 53.2 people to handle people or ideas from different races or cultures than their own.

Person 1: My grandpa from rural Arkansas didn’t approve of my Asian boyfriend.

Person 2: Why not?
Person 1: He has a low spice tolerance.

by toenail_licker_69 January 10, 2022