privation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of extreme poverty
    neediness; deprivation; want.
  2. noun act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
    deprivation.
    • nutritional privation
    • deprivation of civil rights

WordNet

Pri*va"tion noun
Etymology
L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See Private.
Definitions
  1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. Bacon.
  2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
  3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
    Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. South.
    Privation mere of light and absent day. Milton.

Webster 1913