Usually means: Lacking, absent, or deprived quality.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word privative:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. privative: Merriam-Webster
  2. privative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. privative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. privative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. privative: Wordnik
  6. privative: Wiktionary
  7. privative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. privative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. privative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Privative, privative: Dictionary.com
  11. privative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Privative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Privative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. privative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Privative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. privative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. privative: FreeDictionary.org
  18. privative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. privative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (privative)

adjective:  causing privation; depriving
adjective:  consisting in the absence of something; negative
adjective:  (grammar) indicating the absence of something
noun:  something that causes privation or indicates an absence

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