classification vs confinement

confinement vs classification

classification and confinement both are nouns.

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

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

classification: restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people
confinement: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

Other hypernyms of classification include restriction.

classification (noun)	confinement (noun)
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type	the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people	the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories	the state of being confined
a group of people or things arranged by class or category	concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Difference between classification and confinement

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