Indelible vs Indivisible - What's the difference?
indelible | indivisible |
having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
* 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), "
incapable of being annulled
* Sprat
Incapable of being divided; atomic.
* Dryden
(arithmetic) Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.
That which cannot be divided or split.
* Joseph Glanvill
* Digby
(geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.
As adjectives the difference between indelible and indivisible
is that indelible is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface while indivisible is incapable of being divided; atomic.As a noun indivisible is
that which cannot be divided or split.indelible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
- This stain on my shirt is indelible .
- That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
- During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
- They are endued with indelible power from above.
Synonyms
* unerasableAntonyms
* delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertableindivisible
English
Adjective
(-)- One indivisible point of time.
Synonyms
* unsplittableAntonyms
* divisible * (incapable of being combined) incombinable, uncombinable, unmergeable, ununifiableNoun
(en noun)- The composition of Bodies, whether it be of Divisibles or Indivisibles , is a question which must be rank'd with the Indissolvibles
- By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible , but only the least sort of natural bodies.