The difference between Imprisonment and Incarceration

When used as nouns, imprisonment means a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime, whereas incarceration means the act of confining, or the state of being confined.

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  1. Imprisonment as a noun:

    A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.

  1. Incarceration as a noun:

    The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

  2. Incarceration as a noun (surgery, dated):

    strangulation, as in hernia.

  3. Incarceration as a noun:

    A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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