What's the difference between incessant and interminable?

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.

Interminable


Definition:

  • (a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
  • (2) Re-examining Sigmund Freud's 'Analysis terminable and interminable' (1937) from the perspective of child analysis highlights the importance of developmental assessment and developmental forces in psychoanalysis.
  • (3) Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
  • (4) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
  • (5) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
  • (6) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
  • (7) A botched attempt to bully Rosie Webster into testifying at Fiz's interminable trial led to a thrilling car chase, which involved a displaced traffic cone and speeds of up to 30mph.
  • (8) Oscar planners have sought to shorten the sometimes interminably long show and have tried new ways to present awards in the hope of livening things up.
  • (9) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
  • (10) On the one hand an interminable mud-slinging saga featuring at its centre a scarcely credible pair.
  • (11) But, despite interminable legal proceedings, their efforts have so far come to nothing, partly because studies commissioned by the UK government have concluded that a resettlement programme on what is officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory was just not feasible.
  • (12) The debate over regional anesthesia and general anesthesia with respect to relative risk in different classes of patients will probably be interminable until studies addressing the issue begin to specify the treatment protocols more carefully and to control as many variables as possible.
  • (13) Radiohead's interminable promotion of their patchy debut, Pablo Honey, would have tried anyone's patience.
  • (14) At first we all thought it was a reaction to the near-fatal road accident of his younger daughter Kate - he and Mari had watched over her as she lay in what seemed an interminable coma.
  • (15) The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.
  • (16) The question is raised as to whether the analysis of the generation of sound by a laser beam moving over a water surface at the sound speed c for an interminable time period requires consideration of nonlinear effects.
  • (17) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
  • (18) It certainly seemed that way, and it was gardening, after all, that got him through those seemingly interminable years on Robben Island.
  • (19) There was no statistically significant difference between the ICD users and nonusers as stratified by SAECG classification regardless of whether or not the interminate studies were included or excluded from the analysis.
  • (20) Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis.