privation

1. A state of extreme poverty (synset 114517010)
   is a type of: impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
   same as: deprivation, neediness, want
2. Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights (synset 101152695)
   "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
   is a type of: social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
   subtypes:

   • impoverishment, pauperisation, pauperization - the act of making someone poor
   • starvation, starving - the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
   same as: deprivation

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