deprivation

2 definitions • 4 examples

a situation in which you do not have things or conditions that are usually considered necessary for a pleasant life:

They used sleep deprivation as a form of torture.

There is awful deprivation in the shanty towns.

There were food shortages and other deprivations during the Civil War.

an absence or too little of something important:

[ C ] There were food shortages and other deprivations during the war.