What's the difference between eternal and incessant?

Eternal


Definition:

  • (a.) Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
  • (a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
  • (a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
  • (a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.
  • (a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.
  • (n.) One of the appellations of God.
  • (n.) That which is endless and immortal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
  • (3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
  • (4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
  • (5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
  • (7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
  • (8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
  • (9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
  • (10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
  • (11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
  • (12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
  • (13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
  • (14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
  • (15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
  • (16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
  • (17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
  • (18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
  • (19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
  • (20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.

Incessant


Definition:

  • (a.) Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (2) Yes, I’m aware that’s confusing, and no, I don’t really know how employers are going to get their heads round this either.” I watch colleagues battle to keep up with the incessant changes and I feel frustrated that this is taking us all away from the core business of providing inspiring lessons for students.
  • (3) But it rained incessantly and the family had to keep indoors.
  • (4) Incessantly progressive loss of renal function culminated in irreversible renal failure 7 weeks after initial manifestations of renal insufficiency.
  • (5) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
  • (6) Incessant hand to mouth movements are often noted as part of the movement disorder of the hands in the Rett syndrome (RS).
  • (7) A patient with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome presented with incessant orthodromic atrioventricular tachycardia following initiation of procainamide therapy.
  • (8) This 35-year-old male homosexual, who had no psychiatric history, suddenly developed in November 1988 the following psychiatric signs: he started to walk back and forth incessantly, he had the impression that he was the subject of the conversations of the passers-by, that all the posters and notices refer to him, and that he was God.
  • (9) However, for incessant supraventricular mechanisms, catheter or surgical ablative techniques are recommended to eliminate long-term drug administration.
  • (10) This report details a patient with incessant fascicular tachycardia.
  • (11) Two patients died, one due to incessant ventricular tachycardia and one of a cause unrelated to device.
  • (12) Thirteen out of 14 patients with the incessant or undetermined type of AAT were symptomatic, in contrast to only two of seven patients with the repetitive type.
  • (13) The problem in deciding what Orwell would write about in 2013 is that Orwell the man was incessantly, in 21st century newspeak, off-message.
  • (14) A succession of storms, some very high tides and incessant downpours this winter have brought into stark relief Britain's exposure to the weather.
  • (15) An incessant growth of kallikrein content was detected in DUH patients, whereas their prekallikrein levels were much lower than in the controls.
  • (16) One baby had an incessant reciprocating tachycardia and subsequently required digoxin for heart failure.
  • (17) Three of these 16 patients developed electrically provoked incessant VT during treatment with propafenone without other evidence of toxicity.
  • (18) Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain's Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital.
  • (19) The reason for this savagery is that, contrary to their incessant claims that their long-term plan is working, five years of Osbornomics has been an outright failure, even in its own terms.
  • (20) But there’s also generic observational material (how British people avoid speaking to strangers on trains, and so on), and I soon found Hess’s incessant burbling and tittering around largely trivial subjects beginning to wash over me.