- captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement - the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
--1 is a kind of confinement
--1 has particulars: durance; life imprisonment; internment - enslavement, captivity - the state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare
--2 is a kind of subjugation, subjection