Incurable vs Cureless - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between incurable and cureless

is that incurable is of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless while cureless is lacking a cure, incurable.

is one who cannot be cured.

(-)

Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.

* Sir J. Stephen

They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

* incurable romantic

* uncurable

* curable

(en noun)

One who cannot be cured.

* ----

(en adjective)

Lacking a cure, incurable.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart [...].

* curelessness