'Privation' definitions:
Definition of 'privation'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn: privation, deprivation]
Definition of 'Privation'
From: GCIDE
- Privation \Pri*va"tion\ (pr[-i]*v[=a]"sh[u^]n), 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. [1913 Webster]
- Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Privation mere of light and absent day. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'privation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abridgment,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- bereavement,
- cost,
- curtailment,
- damage,
- dead loss,
- dearth,
- debit,
- default,
- defect,
- denial,
- denudation,
- deprivation,
- deprivement,
- despoilment,
- destitution,
- 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,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- perdition,
- pinch,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- relieving,
- robbery,
- ruin,
- sacrifice,
- spoliation,
- straits,
- stripping,
- suffering,
- taking away,
- total loss,
- want
Words containing 'Privation'
- In private,
- Private,
- Privateer,
- Privateered,
- Privateering,
- Privately,
- Privateness,
- Privative,
- Privatively,
- Privativeness,
- privates,
- privatization,
- privatize,
- Private act,
- Private nuisance,
- Private soldier,
- Private statute,
- Private way,
- Privateer, SC,
- alpha privative,
- buck private,
- private citizen,
- private corporation,
- private corporations,
- private detective,
- private enterprise,
- private eye,
- private foundation,
- private instructor,
- private investigator,
- private law,
- private line,
- private parts,
- private practice,
- private property,
- private road,
- private school,
- private treaty,
- privative term,
- Private international law,
- private security force,
- private-enterprise,
- privately held corporation