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The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Meaning of "privation" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PRIVATION

From Latin prīvātiō deprivation.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PRIVATION

privation  [praɪˈveɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIVATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Privation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRIVATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Privation

Privation is the absence or lack of basic necessities. The term can be used in a psychological context, often referring to a lack of relationships, or a philosophical context, where vital qualities are absent.

Definition of privation in the English dictionary

The first definition of privation in the dictionary is loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter. Other definition of privation is hardship resulting from this. Privation is also the state of being deprived.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRIVATION


activation
ˌæktɪˈveɪʃən
conservation
ˌkɒnsəˈveɪʃən
cultivation
ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən
deactivation
dɪˌæktɪˈveɪʃən
deprivation
ˌdɛprɪˈveɪʃən
derivation
ˌdɛrɪˈveɪʃən
elevation
ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃən
excavation
ˌekskəˈveɪʃən
inactivation
ɪnˌæktɪˈveɪʃən
innovation
ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən
motivation
ˌməʊtɪˈveɪʃən
novation
nəʊˈveɪʃən
observation
ˌɒbzəˈveɪʃən
ovation
əʊˈveɪʃən
preservation
ˌprɛzəˈveɪʃən
reactivation
riːˌæktɪˈveɪʃən
renovation
ˌrenəˈveɪʃən
reservation
ˌrɛzəˈveɪʃən
salvation
sælˈveɪʃən
starvation
stɑːˈveɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIVATION

private-equity company
privateer
privateersman
privately
privately owned
privateness
privates
privatisation
privatise
privatised
privatiser
privatism
privatist
privative
privatively
privatization
privatization issue
privatize
privatized
privatizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIVATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of privation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRIVATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «privation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of privation

Translation of «privation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIVATION

Find out the translation of privation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of privation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «privation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

穷困
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

privación
570 millions of speakers

English

privation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वंचना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحرمان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лишения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

privação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্লেশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

privation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekurangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entbehrung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

欠乏
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

궁핍
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Privasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nhịn nhục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடர்பாடுகளையும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विशेषाधिकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yokluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

privazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niedostatek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

позбавлення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

privațiune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στέρηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontbering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

försakelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

savn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of privation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIVATION»

The term «privation» is regularly used and occupies the 75.677 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIVATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «privation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «privation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about privation

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3 QUOTES WITH «PRIVATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word privation.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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John Strachan
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIVATION»

Discover the use of privation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to privation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychology AS
A variety of other studies have considered the long-term effects of privation. The conclusions tend to be negative, though this is by no means the universal finding. There are many individuals who spend their early years in extreme privation ...
Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan, 2005
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Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
than being is non-being, has a place in regard to privation, but not in regard to matter, as the Platonists said. He shows that privation would pertain to evil as follows. Form is something divine and very good and desirable. It is divine because ...
Kenneth W. Thomas, Thomas, Aquinas Thomas, 2003
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On Original Sin and a Disputation with the Jew, Leo, ...
Therefore, evil is nothing, because evil is a privation of good, and everyone who understands rightly knows that a privation is not something.13 Finally, there are four modes of opposition, that is of contraries and of relations: affirmation, ...
Odo of Tournai, Irven M. Resnick, 1994
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Substance Among Other Categories
This gap is entirely extended between Lauren Hutton's two front teeth, for the gap does not extend below the bottom of her two front teeth.38 Consider a privation such as a hole in a bagel, or a silence between two temporally separated noises.
Joshua Hoffman, 1994
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An Aquinas Reader
Therefore, although privation is a relative principle (per accidens), it does not follow that privation is unnecessary for generation, since matter is never completely without privation, for it has the privation of another form while it has one form, and ...
Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Mary T. Clark, 2000
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Metaphysics
The primary contrariety is that between positive state and privation—not every privation, however (for 'privation' has several meanings), but that which is complete. And the other contraries must be called so with reference to these, some ...
Aristotle, 2004
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Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroës
Like Avicenna, following Aristotle's stance on the subject, Averroes states in the Long Commentary on the Physics that matter is not privation, after pointing out that Plato did not distinguish them. Prime matter is different from privation.
Catarina Carriço Marques de Moura Belo, 2007
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Order from Disorder: Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and Its Roots ...
Plotinus Like Proclus, Plotinus saw the need for a reappraisal of Aristotle's concept of privation as part of his own formulation of the nature of evil. How, then, does Plotinus' modification of Aristotelian privation fare under Proclus' critique? 16 It is ...
John Phillips, 2007
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Eternal Punishment Proved to be Not Suffering, But ...
Page 186: " God is the greatest good, and it is therefore the greatest evil to be deprived of Him, because evil is the privation of good ; and that is to be esteemed the greatest evil which is a privation of the greatest good, which is God." Page 188 ...
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Evil and the Evidence for God: The Challenge of John Hick's ...
46 By calling evil a privation Aquinas is not denying the reality of evil. Evil is a real privation inherent in a good. Frederick Copleston is sensitive to the spirit of Aquinas's analysis when he explains the relevance of this conception of the nature ...
R. Douglas Geivett, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIVATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term privation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Univ. of California Academic Workers' Union Calls on AFL-CIO To …
... to have around the intersections of race and labor, economic privation and racial disparity,” according to BICC member Brandon Buchanan, ... «In These Times, Jul 15»
2
Go Back To Where You Came From: asylum-seekers back in focus
... with the other series and what occurred but are still determined to put their own points of view across no matter what the danger or privation. «The Australian, Jul 15»
3
The Greek Warrior
... Stratou and her family are known to be well off, and to many observers the couple appeared rather comfortable at a time of national privation. «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
4
Israel & Germany: An Abusive Relationship
But it is the average citizens who must suffer from the resulting wars, taxation and privation, not the champagne-and-caviar set in charge of ... «American Free Press, Jul 15»
5
An interview with Gawker's top executives hours before their site …
“The privation that we're going to suffer going into 2 West 17th Street?” DISCUSSION QUESTIONS. – If the alleged porn-star-turned-prostitute ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
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Hiding Black Behind the Ears: Dominicans, Blackness, and Haiti
“The African before him has endured privation, injustice, medieval cruelty; but the African has not yet endured the utter alienation of himself ... «Gawker, Jul 15»
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MPs' Crimea visit – 'not all well within French political class over anti …
... Russian Federation and…they are not living in conditions of unimaginable privation and suffering as the propaganda would have us believe. «RT, Jul 15»
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Mitsubishi Materials set to settle 3765 Chinese wartime labor …
Due to hard labor and privation, 6,830 of them died. Starting in the 1990s, Chinese survivors of forced labor and their families filed a series of ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
9
The torment and small gains of Burmese dissident groups
... years prior to the current transition — the long, bleak years of extreme oppression and privation suffered at the hands of their military rulers? «Washington Post, Jul 15»
10
Capitalism, Engineered Dependencies and the Eurozone
Within a center-periphery frame of Western imperialism, austerity as forced privation through the both engineered dependencies and exclusion ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»

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