Captivity may refer to:*Imprisonment or hostage, the state of being confined to a space from which it's difficult or impossible to escape the same used in a figurative sense, like for example female captivity, as allegorically portrayed in The Gilded Cage, a painting by Evelyn De Morgan Captivity (animal), the keeping of either domesticated animals (livestock and pets) or wild animals the Babylonian captivity of Judah, as described in the Bible; for other uses of the term, see Babylonian capti… (More on Captivity)