What's the difference between imperceptible and inconceivable?

Imperceptible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the souses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
  • (2) That shift might be imperceptible on paper, but where Araki's earlier work affected a certain nihilistic cool, Kaboom is  warm and sympathetic towards its characters.
  • (3) In addition, cocaine's effects on food and water consumption and urine and fecal excretion, which were maximal by day 2, were imperceptible by day 5.
  • (4) The significance of two handwritten numbers scribbled almost imperceptibly on the back had been overlooked until now.
  • (5) The chronic persistent hepatitis, however, may develop through clinically imperceptible changes into a chronic aggressive hepatitis, and the inapparent acute hepatitis can even pass over directly into cirrhosis.
  • (6) The cancerolytic effect of active systemic immunotherapy, which has been shown experimentally able to eradicate a complete population of tumour cells provided they are not very numerous, has been confirmed in various forms of human leukemia and in a few solid tumours against which it was applied as treatment of the imperceptible residual disease which remains after chemotherapy or surgery.
  • (7) After a visit to the camp in 1966, Joan Didion described Sandperl as a man who looked as if he had, "all his life, followed some imperceptibly but fatally askew rainbow" and the institute as naive.
  • (8) Disadvantages of this technique are the external incision across the columella, which leaves an imperceptible scar of no clinical significance, and postoperative nasal tip edema, which resolves with time.
  • (9) Timing measures were obtained from subjects instructed to tap a Morse key in synchrony with a metronome which marked a timing pattern consisting of alternating blocks of intervals of imperceptibly different duration.
  • (10) He was 36 yards out but his hard, flat shot fizzed past a poorly positioned wall, seeming to swish slightly, almost imperceptibly right then left then right again, like the tailfin of a dolphin.
  • (11) Early radiologic signs of the hematoma consisted of obliteration of the aortic silhouette on the anteroposterior view and the left primary sulcus on the lateral film by a convex expanding homogenous density whose medial border blended imperceptibly with the mediastinal shadow.
  • (12) With little hope, he pressed on with his appeals and, almost imperceptibly at first, fortune's wheel began to turn.
  • (13) The remarkable sensitivity of the liver to small changes in glycemia implies that the normal coupling of the exercise-induced increase in Ra to glucose utilization may be signaled by small, nearly imperceptible changes in glucose.
  • (14) Berry mustered only five more points; and almost imperceptibly, Villanova seized control, soaring to a 10 point lead inside the last five minutes.
  • (15) It was established that all forms of ischaemic heart disease are accompanied by a significant potassium deficit imperceptible for blood and urine examinations of their electrolyte composition.
  • (16) Additionally, scattered cells showing a signet ring configuration were present, and in two cases, focal areas displaying chondromyxoid elements were also seen that appeared to merge imperceptibly with the surrounding spindle cell population.
  • (17) Pregnancy rates (highest among younger age and low parity groups) were influenced significantly and almost equally by age and parity but imperceptibly by ethnic origin.
  • (18) However, after incubation with hyaluronidase followed by staining with Lycramine brilliant blue JL, staining of megakaryocyte cytoplasm was either imperceptible or very pale blue.
  • (19) Another alternative way consists in the reinforcement of conditioning aiming both at the elimination of residual immunocompetent cells and at a more efficient action upon the imperceptible tumoral mass.
  • (20) An initially slow start vindicated their decision but, almost imperceptibly, the entertainment value rose.

Inconceivable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
  • (2) If these workers inhaled a carcinogenic substance partly excreted in the urine, an increased incidence of respiratory and bladder cancers would not be inconceivable.
  • (3) It is not necessarily inconceivable for the issue to be back on the table at some later stage and even to win some form of Commons backing.
  • (4) It was "inconceivable" that one rotten apple was at the heart of it all.
  • (5) Since IAPP is co-secreted with insulin, it is not inconceivable, that in the freely fed mouse, IAPP may act to amplify the blood glucose lowering effect of insulin through a direct suppression of glucagon secretion via the islet microcirculation.
  • (6) The ministry of labour told Human Rights Watch in 2012 that it was "inconceivable" that forced labour existed in Qatar, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.
  • (7) With regard to drugs, intensive care medicine confronts the surgeon with an inconceivable complex of interactions, side effects and dose adaptations.
  • (8) Listening to Fleet Foxes, it seemed inconceivable that anyone had ever mocked the acoustic and the bucolic.
  • (9) "I think it would now be inconceivable for the government to back down after promising so much only a couple of months ago."
  • (10) According to the diagnosis of preoedipal disturbances it should be worked out, that the test-results are not inconceivable formality and uncomprehension.
  • (11) 2008: Lord Bruce-Lockhart, chair of English Heritage, says "it is inconceivable that the inadequacies of the site should be allowed to continue any longer".
  • (12) The Labour leader has a catalogue of reasons why he thinks it inconceivable that the Tories will turn out to be the largest party in 2015, including organisation, psephology, his principles and the fact that he believes the country's values are social democratic.
  • (13) "It is inconceivable how, from $100m of revenue that just changes classification, you could possibly have a writedown as big as $5bn," Lynch said.
  • (14) It is inconceivable that parliament would have agreed to deprive the Chagossians of this fundamental birthright."
  • (15) Israel insists Hamas must disarm, which officials from the Palestinian group said on Thursday was "inconceivable".
  • (16) The Lib Dems have swallowed just about every dose of Tory poison – swingeing cuts, the VAT hike, trebling tuition fees, privatising the NHS, and so on – so it wasn't inconceivable they'd back this too.
  • (17) My more rough-and-ready, high-energy stuff would have been totally inconceivable for The Piano , so Jane forced me to do other things.
  • (18) Although the models are hypothetic, they do not contain biochemically inconceivable steps.
  • (19) England will be favourites, we play them last so we do think we will have a good chance of getting out of the group.” For Northern Ireland – drawn with world champions Germany, Ukraine and Poland – progress will also be tough but not inconceivable.
  • (20) He told reporters it was "inconceivable" that the UN would remain silent while the situation in Syria worsened, and it was " a question of days, maybe hours " before the council voted on the draft resolution.