What's the difference between incompliance and incompliant?

Incompliance


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy.
  • (n.) Refusal or failure to comply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In-patients with psychiatric or psychosomatic disorders were more incompliant than the other ones.
  • (2) Autogenous-vein grafts have a dynamic response to the arterial pressure pulse (compliance) which approaches that of normal arterial wall, whereas synthetic prostheses are generally incompliant, or become so shortly after implantation.
  • (3) The Council also accused the novel of "incompliance with moral norms" and "hurting people's moral feelings".
  • (4) It is possible that an explanation of this increase incompliance is to be found in the rearrangement of myocardial fibres which follows the dilatation.

Incompliant


Definition:

  • (a.) Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In-patients with psychiatric or psychosomatic disorders were more incompliant than the other ones.
  • (2) Autogenous-vein grafts have a dynamic response to the arterial pressure pulse (compliance) which approaches that of normal arterial wall, whereas synthetic prostheses are generally incompliant, or become so shortly after implantation.
  • (3) The Council also accused the novel of "incompliance with moral norms" and "hurting people's moral feelings".
  • (4) It is possible that an explanation of this increase incompliance is to be found in the rearrangement of myocardial fibres which follows the dilatation.

Words possibly related to "incompliance"

Words possibly related to "incompliant"