What's the difference between innumerable and numberless?

Innumerable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (2) The striking nature of skin angiomas in some patients is illustrated by a mother-daughter pair with innumerable lesions of early onset.
  • (3) Most examples measure less than or equal to 0.5 cm and are composed of a partially encapsulated mass of bland Schwann cells and innumerable tiny axons arranged in interlacing fascicles.
  • (4) The results of the meanwhile innumerous studies were found to be at variance and often controversial.
  • (5) There are innumerable pitfalls in the intense learning process of residency training that may result in a deficient resident.
  • (6) Today a visitor to Google Book Search can read on screen or download the full text of Oliver Twist, The Wealth of Nations or innumerable other out-of-copyright titles.
  • (7) At this time, innumerable oligodendrocytes were observed producing BP simultaneously in the major white fiber tracts.
  • (8) One hour after blood reinfusion, the mucosal blood flow in the corpus was increased markedly, and innumerable hemorrhagic erosions appeared in this region.
  • (9) There are innumerable examples around the world where content that is declared illegal under the laws of one country, would be deemed legal in others: Thailand criminalises some speech that is critical of its King, Turkey criminalises some speech that is critical of Ataturk, and Russia outlaws some speech that is deemed to be ‘gay propaganda’.
  • (10) The resected right lower lobe of the lung contained innumerable lesions varying in size from microscopic to 3.7 cm in diameter, all of which were diagnosed as "sclerosing hemangioma."
  • (11) The surface of the articular cartilage of 12 months and 20 months old cats was populated by innumerable pits.
  • (12) Patterns of involvement were classified as (a) innumerable small polyps carpeting large areas, (b) scattered varying-size polyps, and (c) sparse involvement with few small polyps.
  • (13) On gross examination, the uterus was typically symmetrically enlarged due to almost complete replacement of the myometrium by innumerable, poorly defined, confluent nodules.
  • (14) There are innumerable practical applications of these combined modalities to the clinical management of patients with pacemakers.
  • (15) Women make innumerable trivial decisions throughout pregnancy, hundreds of which may affect their unborn.
  • (16) It contains innumerable small cysts, giving it a honeycombed appearance.
  • (17) Multiple mucosal and submucosal carcinoids were seen in combination with innumerable hyperplastic and dysplastic growths of argyrophil endocrine cells disseminated in the entire acidopeptic mucosa.
  • (18) A unilateral rosacea-like chronic dermatitis of the right side of the face was shown to harbor innumerable Demodex folliculorum and D. brevis.
  • (19) Unperturbed by these and innumerable other illustrations of our fabled “yearning for democracy”, respectable commentary continued to laud President George W Bush for his dedication to “democracy promotion”, or sometimes criticized him for his naivete in thinking that an outside power could impose its democratic yearnings on others.
  • (20) In psycho-pathology, this paradigm puts in evidence the innumerable interrelations which intervene at all the levels to create disturbances in the functions, inducing troubles of communications with the consciousness resulting in diminution or non-function of the latter, type psychosis, or in its activation, type neurosis.

Numberless


Definition:

  • (a.) Innumerable; countless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numberless droplets containing albumin were observed in the renal tissue indicating intense resorption and catabolism in the luminal and basal portions of the proximal convoluted tubules.
  • (2) The case reports include 196 A-laser trabeculoplasties, 34 A-laser iridotomies, 158 Yag-laser iridotomies, 31 gonioplasties, plus numberless combined treatments (iridotomy-trabeculoplasty, gonio-trabeculoplasty, gonioplasty-ciliary body photocoagulation, and so on).
  • (3) These pontics are supported with the numberless abutment teeth.
  • (4) One of the main problems of preparing health protection strategies is to assess the numberless risks for health.
  • (5) His own accomplishment resides not only in the safeguarding of numberless recipies from the world of folk medicine, but also in the facts that he under-pins these traditional methods of healing, and their basic principles, with a specific conception of nature, and that he marks out an exceptionally important place for traditional methods of healing in the canon of general knowledge.
  • (6) It's worth noting which belfry is closest to your villa, as these tend to be the highest points and in the labyrinth of unnamed, whitewashed, terracotta-roofed houses, it's easy to get lost - I finished up being ferried around by quasi-bilingual locals until a taxi driver recognised the name of my numberless villa (in my unnamed, whitewashed back street).
  • (7) Their marriage lasted through numberless political campaigns, Jack's loss of hearing, many public positions, the birth and upbringing of three daughters, the arrival of nine grandchildren, general elections, party conferences and endless private laughter.
  • (8) There are numberless ironies and small cruelties here.
  • (9) There are numberless more, equally impressive writers at work in China today; I trust publishers at the London book fair will boldly go and discover, as enthusiastically as I did, this complex and rich new literary world.