Confinement
Confinement noun - The act of confining or the state of being confined.
Usage example: some wild animals take to confinement very poorly
Freedom
Freedom noun - The state of being free from the control or power of another.
Confinement is an antonym for freedom in topics: independence, political independence, easy attitude.
Nearby Word: freely
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- She was effectively raised in a box, and so maintaining her personal freedom and avoiding confinement are overwhelmingly important to her.
Source: Chaotic Neutral - Unfortunately they also made him fierce, vicious and violent, and he broke out of confinement in order to gain his freedom.
Source: Escaped from the Lab - There are lots of reason for this: the loss of freedom, possibly being treated like you're not even human, wondering which fellow prisoner might decide that some petty grudge needs to be paid back by killing you, the toll that things like Solitary Confinement or Prison Rape can take on your mind.
Source: Never Going Back to Prison
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Freedom and Confinement. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/confinement/freedom
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