resistance vs tolerance

resistance

noun
  • The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist. 

  • An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement. 

  • A force that tends to oppose motion. 

  • electrical resistance. 

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. 

  • The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. 

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

  • 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. 

How often have the words resistance and tolerance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )