different between indelible vs indivisible

English

Etymology

From Latin indelebilis (“indestructible”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d?l?bl/

Adjective

indelible (comparative more indelible, superlative most indelible)

1. Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.

   Synonym: unerasable

   Antonyms: delible, uninsertable

2. (figuratively) Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.

   Synonyms: unerasable, unforgettable
3. Incapable of being annulled.
   • November 7, 1678, Thomas Sprat, a sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergymen in the Church of St Mary-le-Bow

     They are […] endued with indelible power from above.

Related terms

• indelibility
• indelibly

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French indivisible, from Late Latin indivisibilis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd??v?z?b?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?b?l

Adjective

indivisible (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being divided; atomic.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     one indivisible point of time

2. (arithmetic) Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.

Synonyms

• unsplittable

Antonyms

• (incapable of being divided; arithmetic): divisible
• (incapable of being combined): incombinable, uncombinable, unmergeable, ununifiable

Related terms

• indivision
• indivisibility
• indivisibleness
• indivisibly
• individual

Translations

Noun

indivisible (plural indivisibles)

1. That which cannot be divided or split.
   • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing

     The composition of Bodies, whether it be of Divisibles or Indivisibles, is a question which must be rank'd with the Indissolvibles […]

   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises

     By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies.

2. (geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.

Derived terms

• method of indivisibles

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.di.vi.zibl/

Adjective

indivisible (plural indivisibles)

1. indivisible

Antonyms

• divisible
• incombinable

Further reading

• “indivisible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

indivisible m or f (plural indivisibles)

1. indivisible

Spanish

Adjective

indivisible (plural indivisibles)

1. indivisible

   Antonyms: divisible, incombinable