Inextricable vs Inalienable - What's the difference?
inextricable | inalienable |
(of a knot etc) impossible to untie or disentangle
(of a problem) impossible to solve
(of a maze etc) impossible to escape from
Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable.
(grammar) Of or pertaining to a noun belonging to a special class in which the possessive construction differs from the norm, especially for particular familial relationships and body parts.
As adjectives the difference between inextricable and inalienable
is that inextricable is (of a knot etc) impossible to untie or disentangle while inalienable is inalienable.inextricable
English
Adjective
(head)inalienable
English
(Inalienable possession) (way too much verbiage for a dictionary entry)Adjective
(-)- inalienable right a right that cannot be given away
Usage notes
While inalienable' and unalienable are today used interchangeably with '''''in alienable more common, the terms have historically sometimes been distinguished.“Unalienable” vs. “Inalienable”], [http://adask.wordpress.com/about/ Alfred Adask, Adask’s law, July 15, 2009, 3:56 PM