different between confinement vs containment

English

Etymology

From French confinement; synchronically analyzable as confine +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?nm?nt/
• Hyphenation: con?fine?ment

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

1. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
2. (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.

   Synonyms: labour, birthing
3. lockdown

Translations

Further reading

• “confinement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Etymology

From confiner +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fin.m??/

Noun

confinement m (plural confinements)

1. confinement
2. The act of quarantining, of putting into quarantine.

   Synonym: mise en quarantaine

3. quarantine
4. lockdown

5. containment

Synonyms

• déconfinement

See also

• isolement

Further reading

• “confinement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

contain +? -ment

Noun

containment (countable and uncountable, plural containments)

1. (uncountable) The state of being contained.
2. (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
3. (uncountable, countable) Something contained.
4. (uncountable, countable) a policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
5. (countable) a physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
6. (countable, mathematics) an inclusion

Antonyms

• rollback/regime change
• détente

Translations

See also

• containment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia