intolerancenoun
uk/ɪnˈtɒl.ər.əns/us/ɪnˈtɑː.lɚ.əns/C2 [ U ] the fact of refusing to accept ideas, beliefs, or behaviour that are different from your own:
racial/religious intolerance
One side-effect of the drug is intolerance of (= being unable to bear) bright light.
[ C or U ] If you have a food intolerance, you cannot digest a particular food in a normal way and may feel ill if you eat it:
(a) food intolerance
a wheat/lactose intolerance
Amy has an intolerance to dairy products.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerant
- myopic
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- petty
- prim
- set
- short-sighted
- small-minded
- strait-laced
- tunnel vision
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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