toleration

Other forms of toleration

plural

tolerations·

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 toleration

What does toleration mean?

toleration means "a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in toleration?

toleration has 4 syllables: to-le-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌtɑlɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for toleration?

Close synonyms include acceptance, sufferance. 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 toleration a common word?

toleration 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.

What rhymes with toleration?

133 words rhyme with toleration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.