Privation Synonyms

prī-vāshən
The condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. deprivation
  2. want
  3. destitution
  4. poverty
  5. penury
  6. loss
  7. deprival
  8. absence
  9. degradation
  10. dispossession
  11. hardship
  12. divestiture
  13. misery
  14. need
  15. squalor
  16. neediness
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Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. privative

Words Related to Privation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Privation Sentence Examples

  • His last days were spent in a cave in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation.

  • Notwithstanding this privation, he highly distinguished himself at the public school of Cahors, and in 1857 proceeded to Paris to study law.

  • Rejoining his regiment, then in the garrison at Auxonne, after a furlough of twenty-one months, the young officer went through a time of much privation, brightened only by the study of history and cognate subjects.

  • The long preparation and training, bought by privation and uncongenial toil, was over, and he was ready to apply himself to the scientific study of sacred letters.

  • But the sensuous and phenomenal, as such, so far as they seem to imply independence of God, are mere privation and nothingness; things exist only through the presence of God in them, and the goal of creation, like its outset, is the repose of the Godhead.

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