noun
1.
Synonyms: absence , dearth, default, defect, lack, ||miss, want
2.
the state of one deprived of something previously or normally possessed
suffered great privation during the famine
Synonyms: deprivation, deprivement, dispossession, divestiture, loss; compare loss 1
Related Word: distress, misery, suffering; losing, mislaying, misplacement, misplacing
3.
Synonyms: poverty 1, destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, penury, poorness, want