Noun: deprivation ,de-pru'vey-shun
- Act of depriving someone of food, money or rights
"deprivation of civil rights";
- privation
- The disadvantage that results from losing something
"losing him is no great deprivation";
- loss
- A state of extreme poverty
"The deprivation experienced during the famine left lasting scars";
- privation, want, neediness
Sounds like: depravatio
Derived forms: deprivations
Type of: disadvantage, immiseration, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, impoverishment, poorness, poverty, social control
Encyclopedia: Deprivation, sensory