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Empathy vs. Tolerance

Empathy and Tolerance Definitions

Empathy

The ability to identify with or understand the perspective, experiences, or motivations of another individual and to comprehend and share another individual's emotional state.

Tolerance

The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.

Empathy

The projection of one's own feelings or thoughts onto something else, such as an object in a work of art or a character in a novel or film.

Tolerance

Leeway for variation from a standard.

Empathy

Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.

Tolerance

The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.
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Empathy

Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.

Tolerance

The capacity to endure hardship or pain.

Empathy

A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.

Tolerance

Physiological resistance to a toxin.

Empathy

MDMA.

Tolerance

Diminution in the physiological response to a drug that occurs after continued use, necessitating larger doses to produce a given response.
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Empathy

Understanding and entering into another's feelings

Tolerance

The ability to digest or metabolize a food, drug, or other substance or compound
Glucose tolerance.

Tolerance

Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.

Tolerance

Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunologic reaction.

Tolerance

The ability of an organism to resist or survive infection by a parasitic or pathogenic organism.

Tolerance

The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
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Tolerance

(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.

Tolerance

(uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.

Tolerance

(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.

Tolerance

(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

Tolerance

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.
Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place, shaking, to show his tolerance.

Tolerance

The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

Tolerance

The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.

Tolerance

Capability of growth in more or less shade.

Tolerance

The allowed amount of variation from the standard or from exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight, hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or electrical devices or operations; - caklled also allowance

Tolerance

The capacity to resist the deleterious action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to anitbiotics.

Tolerance

The acquired inability to respond with an immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism normally responds; - called also immunotolerance, immunological tolerance, or immune tolerance. Such tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen (low-zone tolerance), or to a large amount of an antigen (high-zone tolerance).

Tolerance

The power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions

Tolerance

A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

Tolerance

The act of tolerating something

Tolerance

Willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others

Tolerance

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

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