English

Noun

inmatehood ‎(uncountable)

1. (rare) The state or condition of an inmate.
   • 1964, Daniel Jacob Levinson, ‎Eugene B. Gallagher, Patienthood in the mental hospital:

     Prisons and mental hospitals show certain fundamental similarities in organizational structure, in goals, and in the nature of "inmatehood."

   • 1967, American Journal of Mental Deficiency - Volume 71 - Page 646

     Conceptualizing "inmatehood" as involving a two-way "causal flow" between personality and social-system determinants reflects a transactional epistemology.

   • 2004, Marshall Needleman Armintor, Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity:

     The picture that Schreber provides of his confinement is one of onesided confrontations, innuendos, and unimaginable torture, while to all outward appearances he was the model of docile inmatehood.

Synonyms

• inmatecy