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fondness
English
Etymology
From Middle English fondnes, fondnesse, fonnednesse, equivalent to fond +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?ndn?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?ndn?s/
- Hyphenation: fond?ness
Noun
fondness (countable and uncountable, plural fondnesses)
- The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:
- I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:
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tolerance
English
Etymology
From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin toler? (“endure”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t?l???ns/
Noun
tolerance (countable and uncountable, plural tolerances)
- (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th-19th c.]
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. [from 18th c.]
- (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. [from 19th c.]
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.]
Antonyms
- intolerance
Hyponyms
- (deviation from a standard) fault tolerance
Related terms
Translations
References
- tolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- tolerance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tolerance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- tolerance at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- coeternal, neorectal
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?tol?rant?s?]
Noun
tolerance f
- tolerance (the ability or practice of tolerating)
- tolerance (permitted deviation from standard)
Related terms
- toleran?ní
- tolerantní
- tolerovat
Further reading
- tolerance in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- tolerance in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
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