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Diligent vs Unremitting - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between diligent and unremitting

is that diligent is performing with intense concentration, focus, responsible regard while unremitting is incessant; never slackening.

diligent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Performing with intense concentration, focus, responsible regard.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    unremitting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • incessant; never slackening
  • * 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
  • We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.}}

    Derived terms

    * unremittingly

    References