privation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /pɹaɪˈveɪʃən/
privation
- (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
- The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
- The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
- (obsolete) Degradation or suspension from an office.
- French: privation
- German: Entbehrung, Einschränkung, Mangel
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