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Imprisonment vs Imprisonable - What's the difference?

imprisonment | imprisonable |

As a noun imprisonment

is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.

As an adjective imprisonable is

capable of being imprisoned.

imprisonment

English

Alternative forms

* emprisonment (obsolete)

Noun

  • A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
  • * Spenser
    • His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
  • * Blackstone
    • Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment , whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
  • * (Sir Walter Raleigh)
    • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings

    imprisonable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being imprisoned.
  • (legal, of an offence) The sentence for which is imprisonment.