All captivity synonyms

noun captivity

• bondage — Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
• imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• slavery — the condition of a slave; bondage.
• incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
• in-thrall — to captivate or charm: a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences.
• duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
• thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
• constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
• limbo — (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
• serfdom — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
• subjection — the act of subjecting.
• vassalage — the state or condition of a vassal.
• committal — Committal is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital.
• impoundment — a body of water confined within an enclosure, as a reservoir.
• internment — an act or instance of interning.
• durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
• detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
• gaol — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.