hardened vs inflexible

hardened

adj
  • Firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate. 

  • Inured; toughened. 

  • Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified. 

  • Unfeeling; pitiless; callous. 

inflexible

adj
  • Not able to be changed or adapted to circumstances. 

  • Not willing to change, e.g. one's opinion or habits. 

  • Not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent. 

How often have the words hardened and inflexible occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )