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

1 sense of incarceration

Sense 1
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")