intolerableness
English edit
Etymology edit
intolerable + -ness
Noun edit
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 edit
- “intolerableness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.