bearabilityn.
/ˌbɛːrəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌbɛrəˈbɪlᵻdi/ 1.
a. Ability to endure or tolerate something.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] > tolerable quality
tolerability1640
bearableness1727
bearability1958
1856 Liberator (Boston) 26 Dec. 205/3 It is necessary to adapt the size of the paddle, as well as the force of the blow, to the bearability of the constitution.
1921 Pacific Coast Jrnl. Nursing May 143/2 Starting the irrigation [of the eye] with a diminished or very weak stream and letting the volume of the stream increase as the bearability of the patient increases.
2003 H. Gordon Café After Pub After Funeral x. 186 Someone may be going nuts, be manic beyond safety, or depressed beyond bearability.
b. The quality or fact of being endurable or tolerable. Cf. bearableness n.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance > quality of being endurable or tolerable
comportableness1642
supportableness1649
patiency1655
tolerablenessa1678
bearableness1727
supportability1800
livableness1860
bearability1881
1881 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 29 July 2/1 The thermometer does not tell all the story as to the ‘bearability’ of heat.
1958 W. T. O'Dea Social Hist. Lighting 19 Tallow came in various grades, but even the best was near to the minimum standard of bearability.
1975 Libr. Q. 45 37 Such limited sensory engagement can help clarity, bearability, even intelligibility.
2018 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. e1 For the past decade or so these pictures have existed so completely in their own crass, bombastic universe..that it has seemed sensible to speak less of quality than of bearability.
2. Ability to support a weight or strain. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > action or fact of supporting > bearing weight
bearability1926
weight-bearing1954
1926 J. C. Lincoln Big Mogul ii. 21 A boardwalk, some of its boards in the last stages of bearability.
1998 4th Internat. Symp. Environmental Geotechnol. & Global Sustainable Devel. 32 In this way..the road materials based on paper sludge can achieve the optimal combination of strength, bearability, resilience and frost susceptibility.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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