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Endurant vs Endurable - What's the difference?

endurant | endurable |

As adjectives the difference between endurant and endurable

is that endurant is capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc while endurable is able to be endured; tolerable; bearable.

endurant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.
  • * J. G. Wood
    • The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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