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Uneffaceable vs Ineffaceable - What's the difference?

uneffaceable | ineffaceable |

As adjectives the difference between uneffaceable and ineffaceable

is that uneffaceable is impossible to efface; permanent while ineffaceable is incapable of being effaced.

uneffaceable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impossible to efface; permanent.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Julian Hawthorne, title=Bressant, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=William James Stillman, title=The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Edward Dowden, title=Robert Browning, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The secondary personages in Richardson's "Clarissa" grow somewhat faint in our memories; but the figures of his heroine and of Lovelace remain not only uneffaceable but undimmed by time. }}

    ineffaceable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incapable of being effaced.
  • * 1865 , (Edward Dutton Cook), Sir Felix Foy, Bart. (page 233)
    • Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.