What is another word for deprivations?

Pronunciation: [dɪpɹɪvˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Deprivations refer to the absence or loss of things that are essential for life, comfort, or happiness. Synonyms for this word include privation, destitution, hardship, austerity, scarcity, deficiency, and paucity. Privation denotes the lack of basic necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing. Destitution implies extreme poverty, where one is unable to meet their daily needs. Hardship refers to the difficulties that arise from a lack of basic necessities or unfavorable circumstances. Austerity suggests a state of enforced frugality. Scarcity means a shortage of supplies or resources. Deficiency implies inadequacy or insufficiency. Paucity denotes a scarcity of something that is perceived to be valuable. The use of synonyms enhances communication and enables one to express their ideas more succinctly.

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Usage examples for Deprivations

In snug corners, sheltered by friendly rocks and cliffs from the prevailing winds, are seen little clusters of cabins inhabited by a few lowly people who live in seeming content, and who rear families amid almost incredible deprivations and climatic disadvantages, causing one to wonder at their hardihood and endurance.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
He sympathized with childhood on account of every form of coercion and abuse practised upon it by tyrannical, selfish, or ignorant adulthood, under the most favourable conditions; but his great heart was especially tender toward the little ones who, in addition to coercion and abuse, and bad training by the selfish, the ignorant, and the careless, were compelled to endure the terrible sufferings and deprivations of poverty.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I want her, sir, to be cut off from the world as little as can be, considering her deprivations, and therefore to be able to read whatever is wrote with perfect ease and pleasure.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Famous quotes with Deprivations

  • At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
    Ibrahim Babangida
  • Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they would be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, — if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
    Helen Keller
  • When Hobbes referred to the dire state of human beings in having ‘nasty, brutish and short’ lives, he also pointed, in the same sentence, to the disturbing adversity of being ‘solitary’. Escape from isolation may not only be important for the quality of human life, it can also contribute powerfully to understanding and responding to the other deprivations from which human beings suffer. There is surely a basic strength here which is complementary to the engagement in which theories of justice are involved.
    Thomas Hobbes

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