deprivation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dep=ri=va=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

deprivation, n.
1 (usu. foll. by of) the act or an instance of depriving; the state of being deprived (deprivation of liberty; suffered many deprivations).
2 a deposition from esp. an ecclesiastical office. b an instance of this.

Etymology

med.L deprivatio (as DEPRIVE)

THESAURUS

deprivation

abnegation, abridgment, absence, awayness, banishment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, bereavement, blackballing, blank, cashiering, contradiction, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, declension, declination, declinature, declining, deconsecration, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, defrocking, degradation, demotion, denial, denudation, depluming, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivement, despoilment, destitution, destruction, dethronement, detriment, disagreement, disallowance, disassembly, disbarment, disbarring, disburdening, disburdenment, disclaimer, disclamation, discrownment, disenthronement, disentitlement, disfellowship, dismantlement, dismemberment, dismissal, disobedience, displacement, displuming, dispossession, dissent, divestment, drought, emptiness, empty purse, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expense, expulsion, extradition, famine, firing, forced resignation, forfeit, forfeiture, fugitation, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, holding back, homelessness, impeachment, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, injury, kicking upstairs, lack, liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mendicancy, moneylessness, nay, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, negation, negative, negative answer, negativeness, negativity, neverness, nihility, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonbeing, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonentity, nonexistence, nonobservance, nonoccurrence, nonpresence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nowhereness, nullity, omission, ostracism, ostracization, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, pauperism, pauperization, pensioning off, penury, perdition, pinch, privation, purge, recantation, refusal, rejection, relegation, relieving, removal, repudiation, retention, retirement, robbery, ruin, rustication, sacrifice, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, spoliation, starvation, stripping, subtraction, superannuation, suspension, taking away, thumbs-down, total loss, transportation, turndown, unactuality, unchurching, undoing, unfrocking, unreality, unseating, unwillingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, want, wantage, withholding

ROGET THESAURUS

deprivation

Loss

N loss, deperdition, perdition, forfeiture, lapse, privation, bereavement, deprivation, riddance, damage, squandering, waste, losing, not having, shorn of, deprived of, denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off, dispossessed, rid of, quit of, out of pocket, lost, long lost, irretrievable, off one's hands, Int, farewell to!, adieu to.

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.