tolerabilityn.
rare.
The quality or state of being tolerable; tolerableness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] > tolerable quality
tolerability1640
bearableness1727
bearability1958
1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 185 Let them labour also to ingratiate every Pastor, who hath tolerability of desert with his owne Congregation.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 65 Alas; tolerability was eminency in that age.
1810 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 294 I might fit up the lives of the German poets,..and so mend each into tolerability.
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