Associations to the word «Privation»

Wiktionary

PRIVATION, noun. (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
PRIVATION, noun. The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
PRIVATION, noun. The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.

Dictionary definition

PRIVATION, noun. A state of extreme poverty.
PRIVATION, noun. Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights".

Wise words

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.
Sophocles