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Amenable vs Liable - What's the difference?

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Amenable is a related term of liable.


As adjectives the difference between amenable and liable

is that amenable is willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions while liable is bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.

amenable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  • Willing to comply with; agreeable.
  • (math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

    • Antonyms

    * unamenable

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    liable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
    • The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
    • The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience
  • Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable.
  • Likely.
    • Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.

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    * liability * reliable

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