confinement
Kept in place
Confinement is the state of being restricted to a place or enclosed space.
A prisoner serves time in confinement.
Someone ill or injured may be confined to bed: The doctor ordered strict confinement for two weeks.
In an older sense, confinement referred specifically to the period surrounding childbirth, when women were expected to remain indoors.
Solitary confinement isolates a prisoner from all human contact.
Confinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- cellBasic unit of life
- detentionTemporary official holding
- custodyProtective care or control
imprisonment · inmate · sentence · penitentiary · correctional · warden · bars · lockup
Limit on action
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
- limitationBound on extent
- controlAuthority to direct
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
stricture · curb · check · inhibition · straitjacket · shackles · handcuffs · bonds
State of being alone
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- separationState of being apart
withdrawal · hermitage · sequestration · insularity · remoteness · cabin fever · housebound · shut-in
Strenuous effort; also childbirth
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- lying-inChildbirth recuperation period
- postpartumAfter childbirth period
- maternityState of being pregnant
midwife · birthing · pregnancy · prenatal · postnatal · maternal · childbed · parturition
Barred confinement structure
paddock · stall · corral · hutch · aviary · terrarium · enclosure · compound
Prescribed horizontal recovery
- hospitalizationFormal entry into medical care
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- immobilityLack of motion
- tractionAdhesive friction enabling movement
wheelchair · coma · paralysis · disability · recovery · rehabilitation · sanatorium · sick room
prison
Confinement for offenders
custody · imprisonment · inmate · sentence · penitentiary · correctional · warden · bars · lockup · solitary
restriction
Limit on action
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
- limitationBound on extent
- controlAuthority to direct
suppression · stricture · curb · check · inhibition · straitjacket · shackles · handcuffs · bonds · fetters
solitude
State of being alone
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
separation · withdrawal · hermitage · sequestration · insularity · remoteness · cabin fever · housebound · shut-in · cooped up
labor
Strenuous effort; also childbirth
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- lying-inChildbirth recuperation period
- postpartumAfter childbirth period
maternity · midwife · birthing · pregnancy · prenatal · postnatal · maternal · childbed · parturition · obstetric
cage
Barred confinement structure
cell · paddock · stall · corral · hutch · aviary · terrarium · enclosure · compound · cramped
bedrest
Prescribed horizontal recovery
- hospitalizationFormal entry into medical care
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- immobilityLack of motion
traction · wheelchair · coma · paralysis · disability · recovery · rehabilitation · sanatorium · sick room · home care
cramped
Uncomfortably lacking space
claustrophobic · enclosed · restricted · bounded · hemmed in · walled · boxed · trapped · airless · windowless
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- captivity crimeskidnapping, abduction, false imprisonment, hostage-taking, human trafficking
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
confinementrelease
To let go
freedom · liberation · free movement · roaming · wandering
confinementliberty
Absence of unjust constraint
freedom · liberation · emancipation · independence · manumission
confinementexpansiveness
Quality of great extent
boundlessness · openness · open space · vastness · spaciousness
- solitary confinementIsolated imprisonment in cell
- home confinementForced domestic detention
- magnetic confinementRestraining plasma via fields
- inertial confinementTrapping via rapid compression
- quantum confinementSize-limited particle behavior
- color confinementQuarks cannot exist alone