deprivation   (Sound)

The noun deprivation has 3 senses

• privation, want, deprivation, neediness -- (a state of extreme poverty)


• loss, deprivation -- (the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation")


• privation, deprivation -- (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights")