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Deprivation Common

Origin: Latin suffix -tion

Deprivation has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a state of extreme poverty

"After years of deprivation, the family finally received enough food to last until their next paycheck."

2

the disadvantage that results from losing something

"his loss of credibility led to his resignation"

"losing him is no great deprivation"

3

act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

"nutritional privation"

"deprivation of civil rights"

4

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

"The sudden deprivation of his title left the former king humiliated and stripped of all royal authority."

Example Sentences
"his loss of credibility led to his resignation" noun
"losing him is no great deprivation" noun
"nutritional privation" noun
"deprivation of civil rights" noun
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
poverty disadvantage social control
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
pauperization starvation
Rhyming Words
ion aion tion zion pion sion gion bion fion lion dion cion rion orion obion axion deion trion diion arion
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