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Detainment vs Internment - What's the difference?

detainment | internment |

As nouns the difference between detainment and internment

is that detainment is the condition of being detained; detention while internment is confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

detainment

English

Noun

  • The condition of being detained; detention

    • internment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.