DEPRIVATION
| Pronunciation (US): |  |
Dictionary entry overview: What does deprivation mean?
• DEPRIVATION (noun)
The noun DEPRIVATION has 3 senses:
1. a state of extreme poverty
2. the disadvantage that results from losing something
3. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
Familiarity information: DEPRIVATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DEPRIVATION (noun)
Meaning:
A state of extreme poverty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
deprivation; neediness; privation; want
Hypernyms ("deprivation" is a kind of...):
impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)
Meaning:
The disadvantage that results from losing something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
deprivation; loss
Context examples:
his loss of credibility led to his resignation / losing him is no great deprivation
Hypernyms ("deprivation" is a kind of...):
disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)
Meaning:
Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
privation; deprivation
Context examples:
nutritional privation / deprivation of civil rights
Hypernyms ("deprivation" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deprivation"):
impoverishment; pauperisation; pauperization (the act of making someone poor)
starvation; starving (the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine)
