sufferance

1. 1.

   patient endurance especially of pain or distress

   Broaderendurance
2. 2.

   a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations

   “all people should practice toleration and live together in peace”

   Synonymstolerationacceptance

   Broaderpermissiveness

   Narrowerself acceptance

Other forms of sufferance

plural

sufferances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sufferance

What does sufferance mean?

sufferance means "patient endurance especially of pain or distress". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sufferance?

sufferance has 3 syllables: suf-fe-rance. The stress falls on "suf".

What is another word for sufferance?

Close synonyms include toleration, acceptance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sufferance a common word?

sufferance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.