privation

Definition of Privation in English :

a state of extreme poverty

2. deprivation, privation

act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

Example Sentences:
'nutritional privation'
'deprivation of civil rights'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Privation

noun

1.

loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter

2.

hardship resulting from this

3.

the state of being deprived

4. logic obsolete

the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects

noun

1.

a depriving or being deprived; deprivation; specif., the loss or absence of some quality or condition

2.

lack of the ordinary necessities of life

n.

1.

a. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life: living in times of privation.

b. An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss: endured the privations of war.

2. The condition of being without a specified quality or attribute: the privation of liberty.