privation
privation
Definition
pri·va·tion (prī vā′s̸hən)
noun
- a depriving or being deprived; deprivation; specif., the loss or absence of some quality or condition
- lack of the ordinary necessities of life
Etymology: ME privacion < L privatio < privare: see private
privation
Synonyms
privation
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- war: Despite the privations of war, New York mounted a splendid array of parties, receptions, and parades for him.
- reality: The metaphysical good of reality correlates with the metaphysical evil of privation of reality or non-being.
- kind: We suffered very much from privations of all kinds.
- period: The workers no longer suffered from the privations of the earlier period.
- people: But the idea that she shared the wartime privations of ordinary people is a complete myth.
Converse of object
- endure: For weeks now I have labored in the worst possible conditions, enduring privations that would have broken lesser men.
- suffer: They will also have to face the prospect of being an additional burden to a family or community already suffering severe privation.
- face: This clearly alludes to the privations faced by the author himself.
- experience: Sydney and Charles experienced acute privation and often hunger, and were eventually taken into public care.
- undergo: They were to undergo severe privations ( it was reported that one man even resorted to eating his wife!
- share: But the idea that she shared the wartime privations of ordinary people is a complete myth.
Adjective modifier
- severe: They will also have to face the prospect of being an additional burden to a family or community already suffering severe privation.
- great: In most cases it was a choice between domestic service out, or hard work with great privation at home.
- terrible: He had been beleaguered there since the previous November, suffering the most terrible privations and we had been anxiously awaiting news.
- extreme: In times of extreme privation, they will even eat other rats - usually sick or weak individuals - but this is rare.
- physical: Long may it be generally thought that physical privations alone merit compassion, and that the rest is a figment.
- social: Those and similar works were read by working class radicals against a background of social privation, injustice and unrest.
Noun used with modifier
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