intolerableness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English intolerable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English intolerableness From intolerable + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 13: