sympathy vs tolerance

sympathy

noun
  • Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude. 

  • Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions. 

  • Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting. 

  • The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune. 

  • The ability to share the feelings of another. 

  • A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. 

  • Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it. 

  • An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. 

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 sympathy and tolerance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )