privation
[ prahy-vey-shuhn ]
/ praɪˈveɪ ʃən /
noun
lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
an instance of this.
the act of depriving.
the state of being deprived.
Words nearby privation
Origin of privation
SYNONYMS FOR privation
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for privation
British Dictionary definitions for privation
privation
/ (praɪˈveɪʃən) /
noun
loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter
hardship resulting from this
the state of being deprived
logic obsolete the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
Word Origin for privation
C14: from Latin prīvātiō deprivation
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012