- privation, want, deprivation - a state of extreme poverty
--1 is a kind of poverty, poorness, impoverishment
- privation, deprivation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
--2 is a kind of social control
--2 has particulars:pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment; starvation, starving