tollerabile

Tollerabile is an Italian adjective meaning bearable or tolerable, describing conditions, effects, or states that can be endured without excessive discomfort or risk. It is used for physical sensations, environmental factors, or thresholds in medicine and policy, indicating a level considered acceptable within a given limit. The noun form is tollerabilità, used to refer to the degree to which something is tolerable.

Etymology: The word derives from Latin tolerabilis meaning “able to be endured,” via the Italian verb tollerare or tolerare, with the suffix -abile forming adjectives of capability.

Grammatical notes: tollerabile is an adjective that agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (singular: tollerabile; plural: tollerabili). It is common in medical, pharmacological, and everyday language.

Usage notes: The term is frequently employed in discussions of pain, drug side effects, or environmental limits to express that a condition is manageable or acceptable. In pharmacology, tollerabilità or tollerabilità del farmaco is used to describe how well adverse effects are tolerated, often in relation to dosage or treatment duration. Degree modifiers such as molto tollerabile or poco tollerabile are possible.

Examples: Il dolore è tollerabile con analgesici. La tollerabilità del nuovo trattamento è stata valutata positivamente. Il rumore notturno è tollerabile per alcuni, ma non per altri.

See also: tolleranza, tollerabilità, tolerance.