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