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Imprisonable vs Incarcerable - What's the difference?

imprisonable | incarcerable |

As adjectives the difference between imprisonable and incarcerable

is that imprisonable is capable of being imprisoned while incarcerable is suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.

imprisonable

English

Adjective

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

    • incarcerable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.
  • * 1999 , Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria?
    • The boundaries of incarcerable behavior were wider, though, for people far from kin and community, even if these people were not violent.