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/ˌdɛp.ɹɪˈveɪʃən/ · noun
(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving..
Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies.
He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.
The deprivation of anything whose possession is consistent with the nature of the Being which wants it, is a defect. But ignorance is a deprivation of something which is consistent with the nature of intelligence: it is a deprivation of knowledge.
Outside the boundaries of the PTEs [Passenger Transport Executives], there was little mechanism to re-open routes, and despite a growing realisation that the lack of transport connectivity was a big contributor towards social deprivation and poor economic performance, there was little government policy recognition.
Use deprivation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deprivation means (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving..
Common synonyms include privation, loss, want, bereavement.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies.
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