enthralldom

Noun

1. The act of enthralling, or the state of being enthralled; slavery; bondage.
   • To my mind, those who thus shrink afford thereby but evidences of their psychological enthralldom. - 1907, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook:
   • […] you will often find yourself in a situation that will render it difficult to extricate yourself from its enthraldoms with credit and integrity. - 2005, The Novitiate's Preceptor Or Religious and Literary Register...
   • Voice-over: "Ergo LWP from Nike. Now at Foot Action." It's an amazing commercial, which takes exact aim at, for instance, the method of this book: namely, the irrelevance of "analysis" to grace (what an agony of...
2. Anything that enthralls or subjugates.