unbearability
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]unbearability (uncountable)
- The quality of being unbearable.
- 1857, “Terror in the till”, in The National Magazine[1], volume 1, page 300:
- 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.
- 1932, The Argosy, volume 12, page 61:
- My wrist used to ache to the point of unbearability.
- 2015, Sybil Howe, Simple Reality[2]:
- Feeling stuffed to near unbearability, the pair slowly made their way back towards home.