'Deprivation' definitions:
Definition of 'deprivation'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
The disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: loss, deprivation]
noun
Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn: privation, deprivation]
Definition of 'Deprivation'
From: GCIDE
- Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
- 1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deprivation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- abridgment,
- absence,
- awayness,
- banishment,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- bereavement,
- blackballing,
- blank,
- cashiering,
- contradiction,
- cost,
- curtailment,
- damage,
- dead loss,
- debit,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- deconsecration,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- defrocking,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- denial,
- denudation,
- depluming,
- deportation,
- deposal,
- deposition,
- deprivement,
- despoilment,
- destitution,
- destruction,
- dethronement,
- detriment,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disassembly,
- disbarment,
- disbarring,
- disburdening,
- disburdenment,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discrownment,
- disenthronement,
- disentitlement,
- disfellowship,
- dismantlement,
- dismemberment,
- dismissal,
- disobedience,
- displacement,
- displuming,
- dispossession,
- dissent,
- divestment,
- drought,
- emptiness,
- empty purse,
- exclusion,
- excommunication,
- exile,
- expatriation,
- expense,
- expulsion,
- extradition,
- famine,
- firing,
- forced resignation,
- forfeit,
- forfeiture,
- fugitation,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- holding back,
- homelessness,
- impeachment,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- injury,
- kicking upstairs,
- lack,
- liquidation,
- loser,
- losing,
- losing streak,
- loss,
- mendicancy,
- moneylessness,
- nay,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- neverness,
- nihility,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonbeing,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonentity,
- nonexistence,
- nonobservance,
- nonoccurrence,
- nonpresence,
- nonreality,
- nonsubsistence,
- not-being,
- nothingness,
- nowhereness,
- nullity,
- omission,
- ostracism,
- ostracization,
- ousting,
- outlawing,
- outlawry,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- pensioning off,
- penury,
- perdition,
- pinch,
- privation,
- purge,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- relieving,
- removal,
- repudiation,
- retention,
- retirement,
- robbery,
- ruin,
- rustication,
- sacrifice,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- spoliation,
- starvation,
- stripping,
- subtraction,
- superannuation,
- suspension,
- taking away,
- thumbs-down,
- total loss,
- transportation,
- turndown,
- unactuality,
- unchurching,
- undoing,
- unfrocking,
- unreality,
- unseating,
- unwillingness,
- vacancy,
- vacuity,
- vacuum,
- void,
- want,
- wantage,
- withholding