Privative


adjective
1.
causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
2.
consisting in or characterized by the taking away, loss, or lack of something.
3.
Grammar. indicating negation or absence.
noun
4.
Grammar. a privative element, as a- in asymmetric.
5.
something that is deprived.
adjective
1.
causing privation
2.
expressing lack or negation, as for example the English suffix -less and prefix un-
3.
(logic, obsolete) (of a proposition) that predicates a logical privation

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