What's the difference between indefinable and indescribable?

Indefinable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number of samples with indefinable statistics due to a zero denominator can be as high as 30% when the sample sizes are 500 for three, four and five category-state classifications.
  • (2) A chest X-ray film showed a left hydropneumothorax with an indefinable left diaphragm, that was confirmed by ultrasonography.
  • (3) There’s a special extra quality you need that is indefinable, and I know I don’t have it.
  • (4) Diabetes is more than one disease, it is indefinable, probably genetically multifactorial, and presents several facets with varying degrees of heredity and environment in their constitution.
  • (5) Gonad primordium of Ambystoma mexicanum when grafted at tail-bud stage on Triturus alpestris is indefinately tolerated.
  • (6) Moyes had suggested that there might be some intangible mental weakness behind his team’s poor start, even an indefinable “something” that goes beyond rational explanation: a bad vibe, a hex, a shadow.
  • (7) The remaining implantation sites contained either abnormal, very retarded embryos or indefinable embryo remnants.
  • (8) Kaposi's sarcoma was diagnosed in a 62 year old female at the last stage of an indefined malignant lymphoma.
  • (9) It is there in Javert's conversion towards the end of the novel: his sense of "some indefinable sense of justice according to God's rules that was the reverse of justice according to man".
  • (10) There is no doubt that over the last 2 decades medical imaging has changed the diagnostic process, but its influence on the outcome of disease other than infections is less certain and probably indefinable.
  • (11) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.
  • (12) These included, in order of their frequency, QTc prolongation (85%), T-wave abnormality (82%), PQ prolongation (19%), widening of QRS with or without bundle branch block pattern (19%), and supraventricular or indefinable tachycardia with wide QRS complexes (8%).
  • (13) But these are inevitably imperfect efforts to capture in visual form the unique charisma, the indefinable Clegginess of Clegg.
  • (14) The patients feel a typical, almost indefinable, particuliar crawling sensation reminiscent of the movement of worms.
  • (15) The majority of oligodendrocytes contain large indefinable heterogeneous electron-dense structures within their perikaryon or processes.
  • (16) Once Alex and Danielle thought they saw his white pant-leg duck into the bathroom; another time the couple heard an indefinable growling under the bed.
  • (17) This recording method is especially good for continuing education courses and for detailed storing of certain results, because the method may be reprodused indefinately.
  • (18) Wetmore and Singer add that some tumors are radioresistant for indefinable reasons.
  • (19) The problem of defining life is discussed, using as foundation Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, which holds that life is indefineable.
  • (20) We have to balance our fears of the indefinable, nebulous worlds of crime and terrorism, with the fact that, if we put Tasers in our public servants' hands, at some point they'll use them on us.

Indescribable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being described.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blyth said what the children were subjected to was “indescribably awful”.
  • (2) Once more unto the valley of the kings, then, as another Silicon monopolist issues a decree, in this case to the indescribably junior entity that is Norway.
  • (3) "So the thrill of being able to declare that two people of the same sex are actually married is indescribable."
  • (4) Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival , said today, "We are profoundly grateful to Claudio Abbado for all the magnificent, unforgettable, and indescribable experiences that he gave us in the past 47 years.
  • (5) "The indescribable events here amount to the worst form of terrorism.
  • (6) She added: "I still cannot go into her bedroom to sort out her clothes, because the pain of her not being there is indescribable."
  • (7) Trillaphon was a name for an antidepressant, the bad thing was the mostly indescribable interior sense of being constantly underwater with no surface, or of "every cell in your body being sick to its stomach".
  • (8) The persistent, often almost indescribable quality of the distress suggests a central disturbance of the mechanism of pain experience involving the limbic system and the endogenous opiates.
  • (9) I never thought I’d live to see the day that something so terrible, so indescribable would happen in Paris,” Franck, a customer in a bar near the Bataclan told BFMTV.
  • (10) US president Barack Obama also issued a statement saying: "As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing."
  • (11) In November, Breivik wrote a long letter complaining about the conditions in which he was being held, describing the pen he was forced to write with as "an almost indescribable manifestation of sadism".
  • (12) The pain me and my family have been through is indescribable and it is particularly saddening that all this happened because I was following procedure, and simply doing my job without fear or favour.
  • (13) Nonpareil voluptuousness, intoxication indescribable!
  • (14) It is war – it is indescribable,” said Pierre Meys, spokesman for the Brussels fire department.
  • (15) The experience of coping with lung cancer--from diagnosis to treatment to inevitable death--is indescribably difficult for the cancer patient.
  • (16) "It seems so unfair that I have to have an epidural now, when I didn't have it when the pain was so indescribably awful," she says weakly.
  • (17) And yet it is hard to describe – indescribable, until you're up there, looking down – because the mountain is something other than its substance, something more.
  • (18) There was indescribable chaos, and there were victims everywhere,” Alphonse Youla, a baggage handler, told Belgian TV.
  • (19) The heartache it puts prospective parents through is indescribable.
  • (20) It is almost impossibly, indescribably romantic and really does rank as a once-in-a-lifetime holiday.