deprivation
Other forms: deprivations
A state of deprivation means something is missing, and the situation is serious. If you're suffering from sleep deprivation, you haven't slept in a long time.
If you know the word deprive — meaning to keep something away from someone — then you’re close to knowing what deprivation means. It describes the state of not having something. Poor people experience a lot of deprivation: poverty keeps them from having enough food or shelter. Plants experiencing water deprivation will shrivel up and die. If you’re grounded your parents might impose video game deprivation, although this word is usually reserved for when you’re lacking something really serious.
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the disadvantage that results from losing something“losing him is no great deprivation”
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loss
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disadvantage
the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
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disadvantage
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act of depriving someone of food or money or rights“deprivation of civil rights”
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privation
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impoverishment, pauperisation, pauperization
the act of making someone poor
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starvation, starving
the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
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social control
control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
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impoverishment, pauperisation, pauperization
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a state of extreme poverty
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