self-confinement
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An internalized restriction of one's emotions and behavior to a limited range that is considered acceptable; an inability to fully express oneself.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A restriction in the movement of particles due to their internal properties (such as charge).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Nothing short of the lifelong self-confinement in the innermost chamber of a deserted cellar, of which he speaks to Felice, would seem to satisfy such rigorous requirements for concentration."
- "A fine, self-confinement, and a trial."
- "The invisible man's self-confinement in a basement clearly recalls Harriet Jacob's self-confinement in the attic space in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1865)."
- "A retrospective analysis using a physical-psychological-social inventory of 10 variables evaluated the number of individuals that during confinement and self-confinement (March 11 - June 29, 2020) canceled (mostly M-) and/or requested a therapeutic intervention, the reasons for their request, and the strategies they used to self-manage the situation."
- "Intensity in the white collar world is the result of limited self-design, high prescription and self-confinement: it appears through permanent knowledge shortage, short-term solutions and relational instability."
- "Zhang Xinxin makes it clear to the readers that the liberation of the self under socialism can easily become another form of self-confinement if it demands or results in the negation of the self, especially the female self, or denies the individual of his or her distinct identity."