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Definition of Intolerability
1. n. The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness.
Definition of Intolerability
1. Noun. The state of being intolerable; intolerableness. ¹
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Definition of Intolerability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Intolerability
Literary usage of Intolerability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1921)
"But we have not equated the numbers added in an hour and the intolerability of
the hour into a single measure of behavior at an intrinsically unsatisfying ..."
2. Collected Essays and Reviews by William James (1920)
"... between the primary consciousness of the pain's Intrinsic quality, and the
consciousness of its degree of intolerability, which is a secondary affair, ..."
3. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"... of the degree of its intolerability" (Wundt would say disagreeableness) "which
is a secondary affair simply connected with reflex organic irradiation. ..."
4. A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation Or Sanction by Jean-Marie Guyau (1898)
"We have already called it the sentiment of intolerability. Through the influence
of attention and of reflection, certain physical, and, above all, ..."
5. The Elements of Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1907)
"(2) It may perhaps be possible to rank all thoughts and feelings on a scale of
desirability and intolerability ranging from the feeling one most shrinks ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"... sense content (brilliantly illumined by attention) with a great bodily and
mental reaction, the shorthand expression for which is 'intolerability'. ..."
7. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"consciousness of the pain's intrinsic quality, and the consciousness of its degree
of intolerability, which is a secondary affair, seemingly connected with ..."
8. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... its limits capable of creating it: if the mind sinks beneath the weight of
one, is it an alleviation to increase the intolerability of the burthen ? ..."
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