Words and phrases that have a meaning related to privation: (120 results)
Often used in the same context:
destitution, deprivations, impoverishment, hardship, starvation, pauperism, depravation, desolation, enslavement, squalor, pauperisation, immiseration, hopelessness, depravities, inhumanity, oppression, wretchedness, pauperization, malnourishment, rapine, dehumanisation, tyranny, insecurity, penury, despoliation, despotism, despair, voicelessness, servitude, barrenness, subjugation, anomie, improvidence, powerlessness, poverty, abasement, brutalities, vicissitudes, indignities, rootlessness, peonage, malnutrition, apartness, brutalisation, alienation, subjection, dehumanization, orphanhood, horrors, decadence, sufferings, tristesse, deracination, repression, anxiety neurosis, purposelessness, petite bourgeoisie, undernourishment, autarky, scarcities, cruelties, abjectness, peasantry, marginalization, stagnation, famine, idleness, collectivisation, oppressiveness, murderousness, dispossession, misery, colonialism, hunger, bleakness, misgovernment, unreason, lonesomeness, affluence, harrowing, austerities, faithlessness, asceticism, slavery, regimentation, ignominies, lowliness, humiliation, poorhouses, helots, endlessness, exactions, solitude, defenselessness, ravages, debilitation, solitariness, ostracism, finitude, loneliness, welfarism, abstemiousness, privations, discouragement, want, deprivation, frustration, unhappiness, disappointment, embarrassment, estrangement, suffering, annoyance, confusion, exhaustion, jeopardy
More specific:
starving
Appears in the definition of:
mortification
More general:
Also try:poorness, social control
— Adjectives for privation: great, much, economic, severe, extreme, mere, physical, total, long, real, absolute, more...
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