tolerance vs variance

variance vs tolerance

tolerance and variance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tolerance	Yes	No	No	No
variance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, variance is a hypernym of tolerance; that is, variance is a word with a broader meaning than tolerance:

tolerance: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
variance: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

Other hypernyms of tolerance include disagreement, discrepancy, divergence.

tolerance (noun)	variance (noun)
the act of tolerating something	an activity that varies from a norm or standard
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits	an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions	a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior	the quality of being subject to variation
willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others	the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
	discord that splits a group
	an event that departs from expectations

Difference between tolerance and variance

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