Noun: privation prI'vey-shun
- A state of extreme poverty
"The refugees lived in a state of privation, lacking basic necessities";
- want, deprivation, neediness
- Act of depriving someone of food, money or rights
"nutritional privation";
- deprivation
Derived forms: privations
Type of: immiseration, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, impoverishment, poorness, poverty, social control
Encyclopedia: Privation