self-confinement

Noun

self-confinement (countable and uncountable, plural self-confinements)

1. Self-imposed restriction of movement to a particular location.
   • Nothing short of the lifelong self-confinement in the innermost chamber of a deserted cellar, of which he speaks to Felice, would seem to satisfy such rigorous requirements for concentration.2002, Walter Herbert Sokel, The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka, page 73
   • A fine, self-confinement, and a trial.2022, Lorelei Bell, Ascension
2. An internalized restriction of one's emotions and behavior to a limited range that is considered acceptable; an inability to fully express oneself.
   • Intensity in the white collar world is the result of limited self-design, high prescription and self-confinement: it appears through permanent knowledge shortage, short-term solutions and relational instability.2002, Armand Hatchuel, “Sources of intensity in work organizations”, in Peter Docherty, Jan Forslin, Abraham B. Shani, editors, Creating Sustainable Work Systems, page 49
   • Zhang Xinxin makes it clear to the readers that the liberation of the self under socialism can easily become another form of self-confinement if it demands or results in the negation of the self, especially the female self, or denies the individual of his or her distinct identity.2010, Kwok-kan Tam, Terry Siu-han Yip, Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature, page 12
3. A restriction in the movement of particles due to their internal properties (such as charge).
   • The higher the injected carrier density, the stronger the self-confinement effect of carriers Silver et al. have predicted that lasing could occur even in type II structures; this has been shown experimentally at low temperature in InAsSb/lnAs multiple quantum well laser structure emitting in the...2012, Xavier Marie, Naci Balkan, Semiconductor Modeling Techniques, page 183
   • In particular, these considerations apply to a class of nonlinear effects which includes self-phase modulation (2), envelope soliton propagation (3), longitudinal self-confinement (4), degene rate four-wave mixing (5)(6) and nonlinear modal noise (7); all of these are third-order self-induced...2013, Bruno Crosignani, “Self-Induced Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers: A Unified Approach”, in D.B. Ostrowsky, E. Spitz, editors, New Directions in Guided Wave and Coherent Optics, page 23