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unbearability en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + bear + -ability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being unbearable.
    • For it must be confessed that coins current, like feudal tyrants, may sometimes reach the point of unbearability; men can put up with their exacting and impracticable nature no longer. 1857, “Terror in the till”, in The National Magazine, volume 1, page 300:
    • Feeling stuffed to near unbearability, the pair slowly made their way back towards home. 2015, Sybil Howe, Simple Reality:
    • My wrist used to ache to the point of unbearability. 1932, The Argosy, volume 12, page 61: