"deprivation" in the noun sense
1. privation, want, deprivation, neediness
a state of extreme poverty
2. loss, deprivation
the disadvantage that results from losing something
"his loss of credibility led to his resignation"
"losing him is no great deprivation"
3. privation, deprivation
act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
"nutritional privation"
"deprivation of civil rights"
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