Privation
noun
The lack or loss of basic things such as food and money needed for a decent life.
The region's population suffers from extreme privation due to the ongoing civil conflict.
Often appears as...
- extreme privation
- endure privation
noun
The state of being deprived of something, especially of something that you like or need.
The voluntary privation of sleep due to work often leads to health problems.
Often appears as...
- voluntary privation
- involuntary privation
noun
Loss of office or status, especially as a punishment.
The judge, found guilty of misconduct, faced privation of office.
Often appears as...
- privation of office
- privation of status
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Legal
noun
The lack or loss of basic things such as food and money needed for a decent life.
The region's population suffers from extreme privation due to the ongoing civil conflict.
Often appears as...
- extreme privation
- endure privation
noun
The state of being deprived of something, especially of something that you like or need.
The voluntary privation of sleep due to work often leads to health problems.
Often appears as...
- voluntary privation
- involuntary privation
noun
Loss of office or status, especially as a punishment.
The judge, found guilty of misconduct, faced privation of office.
Often appears as...
- privation of office
- privation of status
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Legal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Understand that 'privation' carries an emotional tone of sympathy for those suffering.
Organizations worldwide work to alleviate the privation endured by refugees.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Poverty
'Privation' implies lacking necessities, not just having low income.
The drought has led to severe privation in rural areas.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Matters
Use 'privation' in discussions about social issues, disasters, and conflicts.
After the earthquake, the privation of the survivors was heart-wrenching.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Understand that 'privation' carries an emotional tone of sympathy for those suffering.
Organizations worldwide work to alleviate the privation endured by refugees.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Poverty
'Privation' implies lacking necessities, not just having low income.
The drought has led to severe privation in rural areas.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Matters
Use 'privation' in discussions about social issues, disasters, and conflicts.
After the earthquake, the privation of the survivors was heart-wrenching.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Understand that 'privation' carries an emotional tone of sympathy for those suffering.
Organizations worldwide work to alleviate the privation endured by refugees.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Poverty
'Privation' implies lacking necessities, not just having low income.
The drought has led to severe privation in rural areas.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Matters
Use 'privation' in discussions about social issues, disasters, and conflicts.
After the earthquake, the privation of the survivors was heart-wrenching.
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Video examples
A glimpse of life on the...
Others come from the underbelly of society, never given a chance to mobilize foster care dropouts, teenage runaways escaping abuse and unforgiving homes. Where others see stories of privation
Video examples
A glimpse of life on the...
Others come from the underbelly of society, never given a chance to mobilize foster care dropouts, teenage runaways escaping abuse and unforgiving homes. Where others see stories of privation
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Quote examples
John Burroughs
American Author
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Hamza Yusuf
American Clergyman
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.
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Anne Frank
German Writer
I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.
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Elif Batuman
American Author
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
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John Strachan
Canadian Clergyman
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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Janet Erskine Stuart
English Poet
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Quote examples
John Burroughs
American Author
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Hamza Yusuf
American Clergyman
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.
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Anne Frank
German Writer
I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.
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Elif Batuman
American Author
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
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John Strachan
Canadian Clergyman
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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Janet Erskine Stuart
English Poet
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
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