different between sympathy vs tolerance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympath?a (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sumpátheia, “fellow feeling”), from ???????? (sumpath?s, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) +? -?? (-ia, “-y”, nominal suffix); equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) +? -pathy (“feeling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.p??.i/
• Rhymes: -?mp??i

Noun

sympathy (countable and uncountable, plural sympathies)

1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.

   Synonym: compassion

   1. (in the plural) The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
   2. The ability to share the feelings of another.
2. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
   1. (in the plural) Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
   2. Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.

3. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
   1. Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
   2. (art) Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.

Usage notes

• Used similarly to empathy, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, empathy is stronger and more intimate, while sympathy is weaker and more distant; see empathy: usage notes.

Antonyms

• contempt (context-dependent)

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “sympathy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “sympathy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

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)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th-19th c.]
2. (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.]
3. (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.]
4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]

5. (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

1. tolerance (the ability or practice of tolerating)
2. 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