- privation, want, deprivation - a state of extreme poverty
--1 is a kind of poverty, poorness, impoverishment
Derived forms: verb deprive1, verb deprive3 - loss, deprivation - the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
--2 is a kind of disadvantage
- privation, deprivation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
--3 is a kind of social control
--3 has particulars:pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment; starvation, starving Derived forms: verb deprive1, verb deprive2, verb deprive3