All circumscription synonyms
cir·cum·scrip·tion
C c noun circumscription
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- fetter — a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
- confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
- curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- check — Check is also a noun.
- curbing — material for a curb