circumscription vs confinement

circumscription and confinement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
circumscription	Yes	No	No	No
confinement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, confinement is a hypernym of circumscription; that is, confinement is a word with a broader meaning than circumscription:

circumscription: the act of circumscribing
confinement: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

Other hypernyms of circumscription include restriction.

circumscription (noun)	confinement (noun)
the act of circumscribing	the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
	the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
	the state of being confined
	concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child