privation

1 a state of extreme poverty [syn: want, deprivation]

2 act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn: deprivation]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

Noun

1. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
2. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.

Translations

• French: privation
• Japanese: 凍餒 (とうだい, tōdai)

abridgment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, bereavement, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, dearth, debit, default, defect, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destitution, destruction, detriment, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, dispossession, distress, divestment, empty purse, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, hardship, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, injury, lack, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mendicancy, misery, mislaying, misplacement, misplacing, miss, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, penury, perdition, pinch, poorness, poverty, relieving, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, straits, stripping, suffering, taking away, total loss, want