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privative
CIDE DICTIONARY
privative, a. [L. privativus: cf. F. privatif. See Private.].
- Causing privation; depriving. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. [1913 Webster]"Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity." [1913 Webster]
- Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less. [1913 Webster]
privative, n.
- That of which the essence is the absence of something. [1913 Webster]"Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives." [1913 Webster]
- A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also
privative term . [1913 Webster] - A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative,
a. , 3. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
privative, adj.
1 consisting in or marked by the loss or removal or absence of some quality or attribute.
2 (of a term) denoting the privation or absence of a quality etc.
3 Gram. (of a particle etc.) expressing privation, as Gk a- = 'not'.
1 consisting in or marked by the loss or removal or absence of some quality or attribute.
2 (of a term) denoting the privation or absence of a quality etc.
3 Gram. (of a particle etc.) expressing privation, as Gk a- = 'not'.
Derivative
privatively adv.
Etymology
F privatif -ive or L privativus (as PRIVATION)
ROGET THESAURUS
privative
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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.For further exploring for "privative" in Webster Dictionary Online