Definitions for: Privation


[n] act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
[n] a state of extreme poverty



Webster (1913) Definition: Pri*va"tion, n. [L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See
Private.]
1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving
of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
--Bacon.

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.

Synonyms: deprivation, deprivation, want

See Also: impoverishment, impoverishment, pauperisation, pauperization, poorness, poverty, social control, starvation, starving

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