Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun imprisonment

3 senses of imprisonment

Sense 1
imprisonment -- (putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment)
       => punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation -- (the act of punishing)

Sense 2
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")
       => confinement -- (the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement")

Sense 3
imprisonment, internment -- (the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison))
       => confinement -- (the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them)