Definition for Privation:

• The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

Synonyms for Privation:

• n.

  •
  • austerity,
  • the poorhouse,
  • gutter.
  •
  • rich.
  •
  • give.
  •absence (noun)
  • inadequacy,
  • unavailabilities,
  • unavailability.
  •act (noun)
  • privation.
  •bankruptcy (noun)
  • over draft,
  • in-solvencies,
  • in-solvency,
  • over drafts,
  • over-drafts,
  • non payment,
  • in solvency,
  • non payments,
  • in solvencies,
  • pauperisms,
  • over-draft,
  • destitutenesses,
  • non-payments.
  •dearth (noun)
  • un commonness,
  • in-frequencies,
  • in-frequency,
  • un commonnesses,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • rarenesses,
  • in frequency,
  • slim picking,
  • in frequencies,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • un-commonness,
  • exiguousnesses,
  • sparsities.
  •default (noun)
  • over looking,
  • dis-regards,
  • over sights,
  • dis regard,
  • over-looking,
  • dis-regard,
  • overlookings,
  • over sight,
  • over-sight,
  • over-sights,
  • de-faults,
  • de fault,
  • dis regards,
  • de-fault,
  • de faults.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • de-merits,
  • de merits,
  • de merit,
  • de-merit,
  • inability hack it,
  • insufficiences.
  •deprivation (noun)
  • disadvantage,
  • need,
  • indigence.
  •difficulty, trouble (noun)
  • disadvantage(s).
  •disadvantage(s) (noun)
  • fly the ointment,
  • dis-commodities,
  • fly in ointment,
  • dis commodity,
  • in convenience,
  • dis commodities,
  • in-utilities,
  • in conveniences,
  • in-utility,
  • dis advantages,
  • dis-advantage,
  • adverse circumstance,
  • in-conveniences,
  • in-convenience,
  • dis advantage,
  • fly ointment,
  • dis-commodity,
  • in utility,
  • dis-advantages,
  • blockings,
  • in utilities.
  •dispossession (noun)
  • dis-possession,
  • dis possession,
  • dis-possessions,
  • dis possessions.
  •distress (noun)
  • mis fortunes,
  • tough lucks,
  • dis tress,
  • unholy messes,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • can worms,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis tresses,
  • rotten lucks,
  • dis-tress,
  • ticklish spots,
  • holy messes,
  • mis fortune,
  • tough breaks.
  •divestiture (noun)
  • dis-investments,
  • dis investments,
  • dis investment,
  • dis-investment,
  • disinvestments,
  • divestures.
  •hardship (noun)
  • in-jury,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis-comforts,
  • mis chance,
  • mis-chance,
  • herculean tasks,
  • dis comforts,
  • in juries,
  • uphill battles,
  • mis-chances,
  • mis chances,
  • dis comfort,
  • in jury.
  •poverty (noun)
  • mendicancy,
  • tenuity,
  • insufficiency,
  • pennilessness,
  • asceticism,
  • embarrassment,
  • impoverishment,
  • paucity,
  • poorness,
  • homelessness,
  • insolvency,
  • Beggarliness.
  •privateer (noun)
  • freebooters,
  • freebooter.
  •rigor (noun)
  • in-flexibility,
  • in flexibilities,
  • in flexibility,
  • in-tolerance,
  • traditionalisms,
  • in-clemencies,
  • in clemency,
  • in-clemency,
  • in tolerances,
  • in tolerance,
  • in-tolerances,
  • in clemencies,
  • in-flexibilities.
  •want (noun)
  • skimpinesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Impecuniosity,
  • penuriousness,
  • impecuniousness,
  • subsistence,
  • Neediness,
  • subsistence level.
  •
  • poorhouse.

Paraphrases for Privation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deprivation, hardship.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    starvation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    imprisonment, prison, revocation.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    destitution, dispossession, poverty.

Antonyms for Privation:

• n.

  • deprivation
    plenty, abundance, wealth, luxury.
  • Other antonyms:
    gain, acquiring, accumulation, control, ownership, possession.

Privation Sentence Examples:

• He had always supposed that a princess was so carefully guarded from fatigue and privation all her life that the least exertion would prove her undoing; but no hardy peasant girl could have endured more bravely the hardships and dangers through which the Princess Emma had passed since the sun rose that morning.

• Upon this he raised himself from poverty and privation to wealth and honor, and he taught his children to follow in the same way, and it is this thought which has been my shield and protection in this hard hour.

Hypernym for Privation:

• n.

  • act
    pauperization, pauperisation, starvation, starving, impoverishment.

Hyponym for Privation:

• n.

  • act
    social control.