Associations to the word «Deprivation»

Wiktionary

DEPRIVATION, noun. (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
DEPRIVATION, noun. (uncountable) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
DEPRIVATION, noun. (countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
DEPRIVATION, noun. (followed by “of”) lack

Dictionary definition

DEPRIVATION, noun. A state of extreme poverty.
DEPRIVATION, noun. The disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation".
DEPRIVATION, noun. Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.