Other forms: privations
Privation is the hardship of going without what you need. Years of privation, suffer privation, wartime privation.
It is stronger than poverty in tone because it names the experience rather than the condition. It is a different word from deprivation, which is what somebody else does to you, though the line is thin.
1nounprivationThe hardship of going without what you need.
“The prisoners suffered years of privation, with little food and no heating.”
privation is a hardship.
Latin privatio comes from privare, to deprive, from privus, single or one's own.
Latin
prīvātiō
Old French
privacion
Middle French
privation
Middle English
privacioun
English, today
privation
Middle English privacioun, from Middle French privation, privacion, from Old French privacion, from Latin prīvātiō; compare French privation. See private.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA