Empathy vs. Tolerance

By Jaxson

  • Empathy

    Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. There are many definitions for empathy that encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.

Wikipedia
  • Empathy (noun)

    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.”

  • Empathy (noun)

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

  • Empathy (noun)

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

  • Tolerance (noun)

    The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. 15th-19th c.

  • Tolerance (noun)

    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.

  • Tolerance (noun)

    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.

  • Tolerance (noun)

    The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. from 20th c.

  • Tolerance (noun)

    The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. from 20th c.

Wiktionary
  • Tolerance (noun)

    the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with

    “an advocate of religious tolerance”

    “the tolerance of corruption”

  • Tolerance (noun)

    the capacity to endure continued subjection to something such as a drug or environmental conditions without adverse reaction

    “various species of diatoms display different tolerances to acid”

    “the desert camel shows the greatest tolerance to dehydration”

  • Tolerance (noun)

    diminution in the body’s response to a drug after continued use

    “the body’s tolerance to Ecstasy builds up very quickly”

  • Tolerance (noun)

    an allowable amount of variation of a specified quantity, especially in the dimensions of a machine or part

    “250 parts in his cars were made to tolerances of one thousandth of an inch”

Oxford Dictionary

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