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Treatable vs Preventable - What's the difference?

treatable | preventable |

As adjectives the difference between treatable and preventable

is that treatable is able to be treated; not incurable or intractable while preventable is able to be or fit to be prevented.

treatable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be treated; not incurable or intractable.
  • :In the eighties, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high.

    • preventable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • able to be or fit to be prevented