Attainable vs Viable - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between attainable and viable

is that attainable is able to be achieved, accomplished or obtained while viable is able to live on its own (as for a newborn..

is anything that can be attained.

(en adjective)

Able to be achieved, accomplished or obtained.

(en noun)

Anything that can be attained.

* 1971 , Murray Friedman, Overcoming middle class rage (page 223)

So is good housing and medical care and all the other attainables which lead to a better life.

(en adjective)

Able to live on its own (as for a newborn.)

Able to be done, possible.

In (biology), able to live and develop.

* inviable

* viability

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