deprivation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of extreme poverty
    neediness; want; privation.
  2. noun the disadvantage that results from losing something
    loss.
    • his loss of credibility led to his resignation
    • losing him is no great deprivation
  3. noun act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
    privation.
    • nutritional privation
    • deprivation of civil rights

WordNet

Dep`ri*va"tion noun
Etymology
LL. deprivatio.
Definitions
  1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
  2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
  3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. ✍ Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.

Webster 1913