Punishable vs Corrigible - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between punishable and corrigible

is that punishable is able to be punished; appropriate for punishment while corrigible is able to be corrected or set right.

(en adjective)

Able to be punished; appropriate for punishment.

Littering in this area is punishable by a fine of up to $100.

* punishability * punishably * nonpunishable

(en adjective)

Able to be corrected or set right.

(obsolete) Submissive to correction; docile.

Bending down his corrigible neck. — Shakespeare.

(obsolete) Deserving chastisement; punishable.

He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. — Howell.

(obsolete) Having power to correct; corrective.

The corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. — Shakespeare.

(Webster 1913)

* (able to be corrected) correctable

* incorrigible