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Inscrutable vs Insensible - What's the difference?

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Inscrutable is a related term of insensible.


As adjectives the difference between inscrutable and insensible

is that inscrutable is difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret while insensible is unable to be perceived by the senses.

As a noun inscrutable

is one who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc that cannot be comprehended.

inscrutable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.
    • His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
  • * 2007 , Tracy Jordan'' (Tracy Morgan), ''30 Rock :
    • She called my vanity license plate inscrutable ! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!

    Synonyms

    * (difficult to comprehend) ineffable

    Derived terms

    * inscrutability * inscrutableness * inscrutably

    See also

    * inexplorable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.

    • 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