deprivation
noun
[ dɛprɪˈveɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society.
• "low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation"
Similar:
poverty,
impoverishment,
penury,
privation,
hardship,
destitution,
need,
neediness,
want,
distress,
financial distress,
indigence,
pauperdom,
beggary,
ruin,
reduced circumstances,
straitened circumstances,
hand-to-mouth existence,
pauperism,
pauperization,
impecuniousness,
impecuniosity,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘removal from office’): from medieval Latin deprivatio(n- ), from the verb deprivare (see deprive).
