Synonyms for deprivation
ˌdɛp rəˈveɪ ʃənde·pri·va·tion

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1. privation, want, deprivation, needinessnoun

   a state of extreme poverty

   Synonyms:
   neediness, need, loss, wishing, wish, privation, lack, deficiency, want

2. loss, deprivationnoun

   the disadvantage that results from losing something

   "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"

   Synonyms:
   passing, red, exit, release, red ink, going, loss, personnel casualty, expiration, privation, neediness, departure, want

3. privation, deprivationnoun

   act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

   "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"

   Synonyms:
   want, neediness, privation, loss

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1. • Disadvantage

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1. deprivationnoun

   Synonyms:
   loss, privation, BEREAVEMENT, dispossession

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1. List of paraphrases for "deprivation":

   privation, denial, destitution, hardship, dispossession, deprival, misery, revocation, poverty, starvation, disenfranchisement, divestment

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1. Anthon St Maarten:

   We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

2. Raj Dasgupta:

   Technology is one of the main reasons why we have so many arousals and awakenings during the night, [and] why we have insomnia and sleep deprivation.

3. Alan Gross:

   The first year was a year of sensory deprivation. I lost 70 pounds the first year not because I exercised so much but because the food was really bad, the food moved. There were critters in the food.

4. Thomas Rando:

   Ketone bodies arise when the body uses fat for energy, but they also push stem cells into a quiescent state that protects them during deprivation, in this state, they are protected from environmental stress, but they are also less able to regenerate damaged tissue.

5. Thomas Sanderson:

   Money can be strapped to the backs of mules, it's easy to move things across a border during a time of deprivation and chaos.