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Incarceration vs Confinement - What's the difference?

incarceration | confinement |

As nouns the difference between incarceration and confinement

is that incarceration is the act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment while confinement is the act of confining or the state of being confined.

incarceration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
  • Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
  • A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
  • confinement

    English

    Noun

  • the act of confining or the state of being confined
  • lying-in, time of giving birth
  • *1913 , DH Lawrence,
  • *:At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement .