Deprivation
WordNet
noun
(1) Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
"Nutritional privation"
"Deprivation of civil rights"
(2) The disadvantage that results from losing something
"His loss of credibility led to his resignation"
"Losing him is no great deprivation"
(3) A state of extreme poverty
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
- The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
- The taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
- lack
- He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.