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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deprivation \Dep'ri*va"tion\, noun [LL. deprivatio.]
1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deprivation
noun
1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {want}]
2: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: {loss}]
3: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn: {privation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprivation": abnegation, abridgment, absence, awayness, banishment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, bereavement, blackballing, blank, cashiering, contradiction, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, declension, declination, declinature, declining, deconsecration, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, defrocking, degradation, demotion, denial, denudation, depluming, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivement, despoilment, destitution, destruction, dethronement, detriment, disagreement, disallowance, disassembly, disbarment, disbarring, disburdening, disburdenment, disclaimer, disclamation, discrownment, disenthronement, disentitlement, disfellowship, dismantlement, dismemberment, dismissal, disobedience, displacement, displuming, dispossession, dissent, divestment, drought, emptiness, empty purse, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expense, expulsion, extradition, famine, firing, forced resignation, forfeit, forfeiture, fugitation, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, holding back, homelessness, impeachment, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, injury, kicking upstairs, lack, liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mendicancy, moneylessness, nay, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, negation, negative, negative answer, negativeness, negativity, neverness, nihility, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonbeing, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonentity, nonexistence, nonobservance, nonoccurrence, nonpresence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nowhereness, nullity, omission, ostracism, ostracization, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, pauperism, pauperization, pensioning off, penury, perdition, pinch, privation, purge, recantation, refusal, rejection, relegation, relieving, removal, repudiation, retention, retirement, robbery, ruin, rustication, sacrifice, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, spoliation, starvation, stripping, subtraction, superannuation, suspension, taking away, thumbs-down, total loss, transportation, turndown, unactuality, unchurching, undoing, unfrocking, unreality, unseating, unwillingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, want, wantage, withholding
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