Usually means: Lack or absence of necessities.
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  1. privation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. privation: Merriam-Webster
  3. privation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. privation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. privation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. privation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Privation, privation: Wordnik
  8. privation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. privation: Wiktionary
  10. privation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. privation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. privation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Privation, privation: Dictionary.com
  14. privation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Privation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Privation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. privation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. privation: Rhymezone
  19. Privation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. privation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. privation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. privation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. privation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. privation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privation: A Word A Day

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▸ noun:  (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
▸ noun:  The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
▸ noun:  The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Degradation or suspension from an office.

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want, deprivation, lackingness, lessness, disprivilege, indeficiency, bereftness, deficientness, depravation, unprovidedness, more...

Opposite:
abundance, luxury, plenty

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want, need, lack, deficiency, paucity, dearth, scarcity, drought, more...

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privation or poverty, more...

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great, much, economic, severe, extreme, mere, physical, total, long, real, absolute

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Similar:
want, deprivation, lackingness, lessness, disprivilege, indeficiency, bereftness, deficientness, depravation, unprovidedness, more...

Opposite:
abundance, luxury, plenty

Types:
want, need, lack, deficiency, paucity, dearth, scarcity, drought, more...

Phrases:
privation or poverty, more...

Adjectives:
great, much, economic, severe, extreme, mere, physical, total, long, real, absolute

Colors:
    black,     gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     beige, more...



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