privation
privation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
- 2.The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. South. Privation mere of light and absent day. Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adieu
- allow
- bereavement
- bereft
- cut
- damage
- deperdition
- deprivation
- dispossession
- exempt
- experience
- farewell
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- get
- having
- hopeless
- incur
- irretrievable
- lapse
- let
- long
- lose
- losing
- loss
- lost
- meet
- minus
- mislay
- miss
- not
- off
- out
- perdition
- quit
- rid
- riddance
- shorn
- slip
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is privation.
- What is the state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations called?
- What is the condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. South. Privation mere of light and absent day. Milton called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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