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Endurable vs Enduring - What's the difference?

endurable | enduring |

As adjectives the difference between endurable and enduring

is that endurable is able to be endured; tolerable; bearable while enduring is long-lasting.

As a verb enduring is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun enduring is

endurance.

endurable

English

Alternative forms

* indurable (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be endured; tolerable; bearable.
  • Capable of enduring; likely to endure; durable.

    • Derived terms

    * endurability * endurableness * endurably

    enduring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Long-lasting.
    • an enduring belief in democracy

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endurance
  • * 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
    • It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise

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