confinement vs classification

confinement and classification both are nouns.

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

As nouns, classification is a hyponym of confinement; that is, classification is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than confinement:

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

Other hyponyms of confinement include specification, stipulation, circumscription, constraint.

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

confinement vs classification

confinement and classification both are nouns.

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