- lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- an instance of this.
- the act of depriving.
- the state of being deprived.
- loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter
- hardship resulting from this
- the state of being deprived
- the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
