bondage
State of enslavement
Bondage is the state of being bound—physically, legally, or figuratively.
Historically it meant slavery or serfdom: generations held in bondage.
The word now commonly refers to sexual practices involving restraint with ropes, chains, or other devices: bondage and discipline.
Figuratively, anything that constrains freedom: bondage to debt, bondage to addiction.
Control over impulses
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- submissionYielding to another's will
- ropeThick twisted fibers
- handcuffsLocking wrist restraints
collar · leather · fetish · safeword · kink · dungeon · master · slave
Forced human ownership
- captivityState of being confined
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- chainsLinked metal restraints
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
shackles · freedom · emancipation · trafficking · forced labor · abolition · chattel · auction
Violation of divine law
- liberationRelease from constraint
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- mayaPhenomenal world's deceptive nature
samsara · deliverance · freedom · soul · suffering · worldly · material · chains
restraint
Control over impulses
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- submissionYielding to another's will
- ropeThick twisted fibers
handcuffs · collar · leather · fetish · safeword · kink · dungeon · master · slave · chains
enslavement
Forced human ownership
- captivityState of being confined
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- chainsLinked metal restraints
oppression · shackles · freedom · emancipation · trafficking · forced labor · abolition · chattel · auction · plantation
sin
Violation of divine law
- liberationRelease from constraint
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
maya · samsara · deliverance · freedom · soul · suffering · worldly · material · chains · enlightenment
- captivity crimeskidnapping, abduction, false imprisonment, hostage-taking, human trafficking
- Samkhyarajas, unmanifest, manifest, enumeration, dualism
- serfdomserfs, villeins, villeinage, thralls, servitude
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- dependencedepend, depend on, dependency, rely, need
bondagefreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · independence · emancipation · autonomy · self-determination
bondageliberation
Release from constraint
release · freeing · deliverance · rescue · redemption
- human bondageForced servitude of people
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
- bondage pantsStrap-laden punk pants
- in bondage
bond, bonds, bonded, bonding, bondsman, bondsmen, bondswoman, bondservant, bondholder