The quality or state of being bearable; the capacity to be endured or tolerated.
From 'bearable' (from 'bear,' from Old English 'beran', meaning to carry or endure) plus the suffix '-ity' (from Latin, indicating a state or quality). Emerged in English to express the abstract concept of tolerability.
The phrase 'the bearability of existence' became particularly important in 20th-century philosophy and literature, where authors like Camus explored whether life was worth living—making this abstract noun philosophically profound.
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