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Hereditable vs Heritable - What's the difference?

hereditable | heritable |

As adjectives the difference between hereditable and heritable

is that hereditable is capable of being passed on to children while heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children.

hereditable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being passed on to children.
  • * 1913 , Penal Laws'', article in ''Catholic Encyclopedia ,
    • Any Protestant who became a Catholic forfeited his whole hereditable estate to the nearest Protestant heir.

    heritable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
  • * 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
    • All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable' crown, or an '''heritable''' throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are ' heritable property.
  • * 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
    • But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...

    Synonyms

    * inheritable