different between associational vs associable

English

Etymology

association +? -al

Adjective

associational (comparative more associational, superlative most associational)

1. Of, pertaining to or deriving from association.
   • 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, New York: Harper and Row, 1966, Introduction, p. xxii,^[1]

     How could I create such complex and wide schemes of associational thought and feeling, such filigreed webs of dreams and politics, without being mistaken for a “smuggler of reaction,” “an ideological confusionist,” or “an individualistic and dangerous element”?

Derived terms

• associationally
• associationality

Translations

English

Adjective

associable (comparative more associable, superlative most associable)

1. Capable of being associated or joined.
   • 1855, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology

     We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.

2. (obsolete) sociable; companionable
3. (medicine, obsolete) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
   • 1802, Samuel l. Mitchill and Edward Miller, "Remarks on the Sympathy of the Stomach", in The Medical Repository

     the stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body