PRIVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does privation mean? 

• PRIVATION (noun)
  The noun PRIVATION has 2 senses:

1. a state of extreme poverty

2. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

  Familiarity information: PRIVATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of extreme poverty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deprivation; neediness; privation; want

Hypernyms ("privation" is a kind of...):

impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deprivation; privation

Context example:

deprivation of civil rights

Hypernyms ("privation" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "privation"):

impoverishment; pauperisation; pauperization (the act of making someone poor)

starvation; starving (the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine)

 Context examples 

I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I know that it will involve many privations and inconveniences.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They sat without a fire; but that was a privation familiar even to Fanny, and she suffered the less because reminded by it of the East room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

To chuse to remain here month after month, under privations of every sort!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He could not find an adequate motive in Mr. Butler's life of pinching and privation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The picture which she had then drawn of the privations of the approaching winter, had proved erroneous; no friends had deserted them, no pleasures had been lost.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)