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Incarceration vs Internment - What's the difference?

incarceration | internment |

As nouns the difference between incarceration and internment

is that incarceration is the act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment while internment is confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

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.

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    * incarcerate

    internment

    English

    Noun

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