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privation
[ prahy-vey-shuhn ]
noun
- lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life:
His life of privation began to affect his health.
Synonyms: , , ,
- an instance of this.
- the act of depriving.
- the state of being deprived.
privation
/ ɪˈɪʃə /
noun
- loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter
- hardship resulting from this
- the state of being deprived
- obsolete.logic the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
Word History and Origins
Origin of privation1
Word History and Origins
Origin of privation1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Unable to deny the economic ruin Trump is inflicting on the nation, the Fox News spinsters have moved to reframing financial privation as a good thing, because it will supposedly restore Americans' lost masculinity.
A week earlier, Israelis were horrified and enraged by the frail, near-skeletal condition of three freed Israeli men, and by emerging testimony that hostages had suffered privation and torture under their militant captors.
Rather, it was because he came to realize he wasn’t empathetic enough to class differences and the privations of others.
One senior nurse - in a message heard by the BBC - speaks in an exhausted voice of relentless privations allegedly imposed by the Israelis besieging Jabalia.
Saunders and Gamble dig into the domestic privations of poverty — the lack of food and heat, the shame of wearing the same old clothes every day, the constant worry about what’s next.
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