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Damaging vs Damageable - What's the difference?

damaging | damageable |

As adjectives the difference between damaging and damageable

is that damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage while damageable is (obsolete) hurtful; pernicious.

As a verb damaging

is .

damaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)

    • damageable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Hurtful; pernicious.
  • * (Richard Hakluyt) (c.1552-1616)
    • ''That it be not damageable unto your royal majesty.
  • *, II.16:
    • Verily experience makes us thereby feele and undergoe many damageable treasons.
  • Capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage.