unbearability

Beyond all endurance

The quality of being impossible to endure.

Unbearability describes conditions, pain, or situations so extreme they exceed what can reasonably be tolerated: the unbearability of watching him suffer, The heat reached a point of unbearability.

The word emphasizes that a threshold has been crossed—bearable has become unbearable.

physical

excruciating

Causing extreme suffering

unendurable · intolerable · crushing · debilitating · relentless · throbbing · searing · chronic · acute · intensity

circumstantial

intolerable

Impossible to bear

unendurable · insupportable · untenable · unsustainable · impossible · inescapable · relentless · trapped · helplessness · dead end

emotional

anguish

Intense mental suffering

  • agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
  • tormentSevere prolonged suffering
  • sufferingSustained experience of distress

distress · despair · misery · heartache · grief · sorrow · pain · desperation · wretchedness · desolation

interpersonal

insufferable

Impossible to put up with

maddening · infuriating · grating · obnoxious · toxic · draining · exhausting · impossible · cutting off · estrangement

psychological

anxiety

Persistent apprehensive distress

strain · pressure · tension · stress · fatigue · mental load · overload · breaking point · snapping · collapse

Opposites
tolerability/endurability

unbearabilitybearability

Capacity to be endured

tolerability · endurability · manageability · supportability · sustainability

pleasantness/comfort

unbearabilitypleasantness

Quality of being agreeable

comfort · enjoyability · delightfulness · ease · agreeableness

Family

bear, bearing, bears, overbearing, bearable, unbearable, bearings, bearer, forbearance

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