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Obdurate vs Insensible - What's the difference?

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Obdurate is a related term of insensible.


As adjectives the difference between obdurate and insensible

is that obdurate is stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent while insensible is unable to be perceived by the senses.

obdurate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
  • * Hooker
    • The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
  • * 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
    • But custom maketh blind and obdurate
    The loftiest hearts.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.}}
  • (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

    • Synonyms

    * (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant

    Derived terms

    * obduracy

    Related terms

    * durable, duration * endure, endurance, enduring

    References

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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