Noun captivity has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
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