intolerableness

English

Etymology

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

“intolerableness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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