Privation
noun
1.
lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life:
His life of privation began to affect his health.
2.
an instance of this.
3.
the act of depriving.
4.
the state of being deprived.
noun
1.
loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter
2.
hardship resulting from this
3.
the state of being deprived
4.
(logic, obsolete) the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
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