Insensible vs Irrational - What's the difference?
insensible | irrational |
Unable to be perceived by the senses.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Dryden
Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
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Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
* Sir M. Hale
Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
* Dryden
* Sir H. Wotton
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 138
Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
(mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.24:
As adjectives the difference between insensible and irrational
is that insensible is unable to be perceived by the senses while irrational is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.As a noun irrational is
a real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.insensible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm.
- They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.
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- If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed.
- Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.
- Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness.
- In spite of her deep-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection...
Derived terms
* insensibility * insensiblySynonyms
* (incapable of emotional feeling) insensitiveAntonyms
* sensibleirrational
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an irrational decision
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- The number π is irrational .
Antonyms
* (mathematics) rationalHyponyms
* (mathematics) transcendentalDerived terms
* irrational number * irrationality * irrationalize * irrationalizationNoun
(en noun)- The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.