noun
See privation in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
The condition of being extremely poor:
beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, want. See richThe condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have:
deprival, deprivation, dispossession, divestiture, loss. See give, richLearn more about privation