intolerableness
English
Etymology
From intolerable + -ness.
Noun
intolerableness (uncountable)
- The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 13:
- Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intolerableness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.