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Honorific vs Honourable - What's the difference?

honorific | honourable |

As adjectives the difference between honorific and honourable

is that honorific is showing or conferring honour and respect while honourable is (british spelling).

As a noun honorific

is a title (ie, mister, misses, doctor, professor ).

honorific

English

(wikipedia honorific)

Alternative forms

* honorifick (qualifier) * honourific

Noun

(en noun)
  • A title. (i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor )
  • A term of respect; respectful language.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing or conferring honour and respect.
  • * 1996 , T. P. Wiseman, “The Minucii and Their Monument”, in Jerzy Linderski (editor), Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic , Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN 978-3-515-06948-9, page 59:
    • According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.
  • Based on or valuing honor
  • * 2010 , Orlando Patterson, “The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence”, in John R. Hall et al. (editors), Handbook of Cultural Sociology , Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-0-415-47445-0, page 143:
    • In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and

    Derived terms

    * honorifically

    honourable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British spelling)
  • * 1846 , George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2 , page 474
    • It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

    Derived terms

    * honourably