privation

pri·va·tion

P0569900 (prī-vā′shən)n.1. a. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life: living in times of privation.b. An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss: endured the privations of war.2. The condition of being without a specified quality or attribute: the privation of liberty.

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[Middle English privacion, from Old French privation, from Latin prīvātiō, prīvātiōn-, from prīvātus, past participle of prīvāre, to deprive; see private.]

privation

(praɪˈveɪʃən) n1. loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter2. hardship resulting from this3. the state of being deprived4. (Logic) logic obsolete the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects[C14: from Latin prīvātiō deprivation]

pri•va•tion

(praɪˈveɪ ʃən)

n. 1. lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life. 2. an instance of this. 3. the act of depriving. 4. the state of being deprived. [1350–1400; Middle English (< Middle French) < Medieval Latin prīvātiō deprivation (of office), Latin: removal (of a condition). See private, -tion]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	privation - a state of extreme poverty deprivation, neediness, wantimpoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
	2.	privation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"deprivationsocial control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group actionpauperisation, pauperization, impoverishment - the act of making someone poorstarving, starvation - the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"

privation

noun (Formal) want, poverty, need, suffering, loss, lack, distress, misery, necessity, hardship, penury, destitution, neediness, indigence They endured years of privation during the war.

privation

noun1. The condition of being extremely poor:beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, want.2. The condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have:deprival, deprivation, dispossession, divestiture, loss.

Translations

艰难贫困

privation

(praiˈveiʃən) noun poverty; hardship. 貧困，艱難 贫困，艰难