Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being tolerable.

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  • noun The state of being tolerable.

Etymologies

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tolerable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • What a sense of the tolerableness of life the lights in the bedrooms of small shopkeepers give us!

    The Waves 2003

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