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privatively

Variant of privative

adjective

  1. depriving or tending to deprive
  2. characterized by a taking away or loss of some quality
  3. Gram. indicating negation, absence, or loss

noun

Gram. a privative term or affix, as a- (sense ), un-, non-, or -less

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