Deprivation

Quick meaning: Deprivation is a noun meaning (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.

Meaning

(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The state of being deprived; lack.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• deprivations

Synonyms for deprivation

Depending on context, synonyms include privation, loss, want, bereavement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loss, privation, want, disenfranchisement, disqualification, deprive.

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