Privation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.
  • n. The condition resulting from such lack.
  • n. An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
  • n. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
  • n. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
  • n. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need.
  • n. The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being deprived; particularly, deprivation or absence of what is necessary for comfort; destitution; want.
  • n. The act of removing something possessed; the removal or destruction of any thing or any property; deprivation.
  • n. In logic, a particular kind of negation consisting in the absence from a subject of a habit which ought to be, might be, or generally is in that subject or others like it.
  • n. The act of degrading from rank or office.
  • n. Technically, in the Roman Catholic Church, the suspension of an ecclesiastic from his office, stipend, ecclesiastical functions, or jurisdiction.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
  • n. a state of extreme poverty
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    poorness    poverty    impoverishment   
    Cross Reference
    logical privation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deprivation    destitution    need    absence    negation   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hardship    deprivation    humiliation    disappointment    inconvenience   
     
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