Captivity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cap=tiv=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Captivity, n. [L. captivitas: cf. F. captivité.].

•  The state of being a captive or a prisoner.  [1913 Webster]

  "More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs."  [1913 Webster]
•  A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage.  [1913 Webster]

  "Sink in the soft captivity together."

Syn. -- Imprisonment; confinement; bondage; subjection; servitude; slavery; thralldom; serfdom.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Captivity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the condition or circumstances of being a captive. b a period of captivity.
2 (the Captivity) the captivity of the Jews in Babylon in the 6th c. BC.

THESAURUS

Captivity

absolutism, bond service, bondage, close arrest, confinement, control, custody, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, detention, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, durance, durance vile, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, house arrest, immuration, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, indentureship, internment, jailing, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, term of imprisonment, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage

ROGET THESAURUS

Captivity

Restraint

N restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.