different between punishment vs sentencing

English

Etymology

From Middle English punishement, punyschment, punyschement, ponyshemente, from Old French punissement, from punir (“to punish”), synchronically equivalent to punish +? -ment. Compare the English nouns punishing and punition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: pun?ish?ment

Noun

punishment (countable and uncountable, plural punishments)

1. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

2. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

3. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
4. (figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

Synonyms

• castigation
• punition
• beating

Antonyms

• reward

Hyponyms

• retribution
• corporal punishment
• mirror punishment

Derived terms

• brute for punishment

Related terms

• punishable
• punisher
• punishing
• punitive
• impunity

Translations

See also

• telishment

Anagrams

• unshipment

English

Adjective

sentencing

1. Relating to a judicial sentence.

   There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.

Noun

sentencing (plural sentencings)

1. The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.

   After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed.
2. (colloquial) The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.

   He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.

Verb

sentencing

1. present participle of sentence