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emotional deprivation in American Englishnouna lack of adequate psychological nurturance, usually occurring in the early developmental years Examples of 'emotional deprivation' in a sentenceemotional deprivation And all had suffered 'severe emotional deprivation in early life'.You see people in huts, but there didn't seem to be any emotional deprivation.A tale of emotional deprivation has seldom proved so riveting.Inadequate attachments or emotional deprivation will give rise to an angry, indifferent, or clingy child.Some of his tales of emotional deprivation appear to have lost nothing in the telling.This showed their expectations were 'too low', meaning kids there suffered 'unacceptable levels of neglect and emotional deprivation'.On such estates, the badge of economic and emotional deprivation passes seamlessly from one generation to the next.Wharton's background was fortunate for a writer- one of social privilege and a certain emotional deprivation. |