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. Robert Pitman:

   From the moment S.B. 8 went into effect, women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution, that other courts may find a way to avoid this conclusion is theirs to decide ; this Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right.

2. Andrew Huebner:

   The war in some ways was really a war for family, the public culture around the war was draped in familial metaphors, a war to defend women and children from deprivation.

3. Carlos Ghosn:

   I was brutally taken from my work as I knew it, ripped from my family and my friends...It is impossible to express the depth of that deprivation, i was interrogated for up to eight hours a day without any lawyers present...'It will get worse for you if you don't just confess,' the prosecutor told me repeatedly.

4. Octavio Paz:

   Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

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.