DEPRIVATION Synonyms

• something that is lost

• gradual decline in amount or activity

• the act of losing someone or something

• the disadvantage that results from losing something

• the experience of losing a loved one

• the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

• military personnel lost by death or capture

• euphemistic expressions for death

• a state of extreme poverty

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• anything that is necessary but lacking

• a specific feeling of desire

• feel or have a desire for; want strongly

• have need of

• hunt or look for; want for a particular reason

• wish or demand the presence of

• be without, lack; be deficient in

• the state of being absent

• failure to be present

• the time interval during which something or somebody is away

• the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy

• an acute insufficiency

• an insufficient quantity or number

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• a state without friends or money or prospects

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• a lack of competence

• unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• a lack of competence

• (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• be without

• To be insufficiently prepared

• a condition requiring relief

• anything that is necessary but lacking

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• require as useful, just, or proper

• have need of

• have or feel a need for

• an insufficient quantity or number

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

• a small and inadequate amount

• the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

• an acute insufficiency

• state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

• a state of extreme poverty

• the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree