Privation

Definition of Privation

Pri`va´tion Pronunciation: prî`vā´shŭn

n.	1.	The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
	2.	The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
	3.	The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. - South. Privation mere of light and absent day. - Milton.

Related Words

abridgment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, bereavement, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, dearth, debit, default, defect, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, 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, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, perdition, pinch, poorness, relieving, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, straits, stripping, suffering, taking away, total loss, want

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