tolerability C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities US /ˌtɑlərəˈbɪləti/ UK /ˌtɒlərəˈbɪləti/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun the quality of being bearable or endurable The drug's tolerability was assessed across a range of doses. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the quality of being... bearablenessendurablenessacceptabilitysufferableness ↔ Opposites intolerabilityunbearableness Word family Related forms tolerabletoleratetolerationtolerance Etymology AI details From tolerable + -ity, ultimately from Latin tolerāre ('to bear, endure'). tolerāre Latin *telh₂- Proto-Indo-European View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # tolerability **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˌtɑlərəˈbɪləti/ **IPA (UK):** /ˌtɒlərəˈbɪləti/ ## Meanings 1. the quality of being bearable or endurable ## Examples - The drug's tolerability was assessed across a range of doses. ## Synonyms - bearableness - endurableness - acceptability - sufferableness ## Antonyms - intolerability - unbearableness ## Related Forms - tolerable - tolerate - toleration - tolerance ## Roots and Affixes - Root: tolerāre - Root: *telh₂- ## Etymology From tolerable + -ity, ultimately from Latin tolerāre ('to bear, endure'). ## AI Etymology Tolerability comes from tolerable + -ity, ultimately from Latin tolerāre ('to bear, endure'). The historical chain includes Latin tolerāre and Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-. The quoted older sense, "to bear, endure," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for tolerability. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word tolerability carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the quality of being bearable or endurable". Related English forms include tolerable, tolerate, toleration, and tolerance. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - Describing Qualities - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown