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Incarceration vs Incarcerable - What's the difference?

incarceration | incarcerable |

As a noun incarceration

is the act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

As an adjective incarcerable is

suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.

incarceration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
  • A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

    • Related terms

    * incarcerate

    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.