Selftolerant

Selftolerant is an adjective used to describe a system, organism, or framework that tolerates its own components, states, or processes without external adjustment. The term combines self- with tolerant and is often employed in discussions of resilience, auto-regulation, or internal stability. In practice, it emphasizes maintaining functionality in the face of internal perturbations or variation.

Usage of selftolerant is not uniform across disciplines; it is often used as a conceptual shorthand rather than a formal label. When precision is required, writers distinguish self-tolerance (in immunology), fault tolerance or self-healing in engineering, and self-acceptance or self-compassion in psychology.

In biology, self-tolerance is a key property of the immune system, referring to mechanisms that prevent immune attacks on the body's own tissues. A selftolerant immune system avoids autoimmunity through central and peripheral processes that eliminate or regulate self-reactive cells.

In engineering and computing, the related idea is fault-tolerance or self-healing capability, where a system detects and adapts to internal faults to continue operation. In psychology and ethics, self-tolerant usage appears in discussions of self-acceptance, though this sense is less standardized. See also self-tolerance, resilience, and tolerance.