From Middle English captivite, from Latin captīvitās. By surface analysis, captive + -ity. Entered into the English lexicon around the 14th century.
- IPA(key): /kæpˈtɪvɪti/
- Hyphenation: cap‧tiv‧i‧ty
captivity (countable and uncountable, plural captivities)
- The state of being captive.
- (obsolete) A group of people/beings captive.
- The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
state of being captive
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: أَسْر m (ʔasr), سَبْي m (saby)
- Armenian: գերություն (hy) (gerutʻyun)
- Belarusian: пало́н m (palón), няво́ля f (njavólja)
- Bulgarian: плен (bg) m (plen)
- Catalan: captivitat f, captiveri m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 囚禁 (zh) (qiújìn), 關押 / 关押 (zh) (guānyā), 拘禁 (zh) (jūjìn), 拘押 (zh) (jūyā), 監禁 / 监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), 樊籠 / 樊笼 (zh) (fánlóng), 桎梏 (zh) (zhìgù), 囹圄 (zh) (língyǔ)
- Czech: zajetí (cs) n
- Dutch: gevangenschap (nl) f
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: vankeus (fi)
- French: captivité (fr) f
- Galician: catividade (gl) f, cativerio (gl) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Gefangenschaft (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: αἰχμαλωσία f (aikhmalōsía)
- Hebrew: שֶׁבִי (he) m (shévi), שִׁבְיָה f (shivyá)
- Hungarian: fogság (hu)
- Irish: broid f
- Italian: cattività (it) f
- Japanese: 監禁 (ja) (かんきん, kankin)
- Korean: 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دیلی (dîlî)
- Latgalian: navaļa, vaņgeiba
- Latin: captīvitās f
- Latvian: gūsts
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: заробеништво n (zarobeništvo), пленство n (plenstvo)
- Maori: whakarau
- Ottoman Turkish: اسیرلك (esirlik)
- Persian: اسارت (fa) (esârat)
- Polish: niewola (pl) f
- Portuguese: catividade f
- Romanian: captivitate (ro) f
- Russian: плен (ru) m (plen), нево́ля (ru) f (nevólja), поло́н (ru) m (polón) (archaic or poetic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: заробљени́штво n
- Roman: zarobljeníštvo (sh) n
- Shor: олча (olča)
- Slovak: zajatie n
- Slovene: ujetništvo (sl) n
- Southern Altai: олјо (olǰo)
- Spanish: cautividad (es) f, cautiverio (es) m, captiverio m, captiverio f
- Swedish: fångenskap (sv) c
- Turkish: esaret (tr)
- Ukrainian: поло́н m (polón), нево́ля f (nevólja)
- Vietnamese: tù binh (vi)
- Welsh: caethiwed (cy)
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