Unbending vs Insensible - What's the difference?
unbending | insensible | Related terms |
The act of one who unbends.
* 1838 , The Eclectic Review
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.
Unbending is a related term of insensible.
As adjectives the difference between unbending and insensible
is that unbending is inflexible and not yielding while insensible is unable to be perceived by the senses.As a verb unbending
is .As a noun unbending
is the act of one who unbends.unbending
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- He was a frequent visitor at Wimbledon where Mr. Wilberforce now resided, and the following account is given of his social unbendings .
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...
