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Heritable vs Inheritable - What's the difference?

heritable | inheritable |

Inheritable is a synonym of heritable.



As adjectives the difference between heritable and inheritable

is that heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children while inheritable is that can be inherited.

heritable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
  • * 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
    • All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable' crown, or an '''heritable''' throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are ' heritable property.
  • * 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
    • But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...

    Synonyms

    * inheritable

    inheritable

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That can be inherited.
    • an inheritable estate or title
    an inheritable disease
  • Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
  • * Blackstone
    • By attainder the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable .
  • * Blackstone
    • The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male.