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Indurated vs Insensible - What's the difference?

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Indurated is a related term of insensible.


As a verb indurated

is (indurate).

As an adjective insensible is

unable to be perceived by the senses.

indurated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (indurate)

  • indurate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to harden or to grow hard
  • to make callous or unfeeling
  • to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
  • Synonyms

    * inure

    Derived terms

    * induration * indurative

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hardened; not soft; indurated.
  • (Tyndale)
  • Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
  • References

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    Anagrams

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    insensible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable to be perceived by the senses.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm.
  • * Dryden
  • They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.
  • Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible , gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
  • Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
  • Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed.
  • Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
  • * Dryden
  • Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
  • Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 138
  • In spite of her deep-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection...
  • Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
  • Derived terms

    * insensibility * insensibly

    Synonyms

    * (incapable of emotional feeling) insensitive

    Antonyms

    * sensible