Synonyms for deprivation
ˌdɛp rəˈveɪ ʃənde·pri·va·tion

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1. privation, want, deprivation, needinessnoun

   a state of extreme poverty

   Synonyms:
   neediness, need, loss, wishing, wish, privation, lack, deficiency, want

2. loss, deprivationnoun

   the disadvantage that results from losing something

   "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"

   Synonyms:
   passing, red, exit, release, red ink, going, loss, personnel casualty, expiration, privation, neediness, departure, want

3. privation, deprivationnoun

   act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

   "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"

   Synonyms:
   want, neediness, privation, loss

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1. • Disadvantage

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1. deprivationnoun

   Synonyms:
   loss, privation, BEREAVEMENT, dispossession

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1. List of paraphrases for "deprivation":

   privation, denial, destitution, hardship, dispossession, deprival, misery, revocation, poverty, starvation, disenfranchisement, divestment

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1. Bhanu Prakash Kolla:

   We do not know that exactly, this study shows that maybe some tasks, especially in younger patients, can take longer to recover following sleep deprivation.

2. Raj Dasgupta:

   Technology is one of the main reasons why we have so many arousals and awakenings during the night, [and] why we have insomnia and sleep deprivation.

3. Jeremy Boberg:

   Eighty-five to 90 percent of my clients that come in annually have a sexual addiction or compulsion.For the first time in the human race, you can make love to your computer, smartphone, or tablet anytime, anywhere, and the human brain was not designed for this, it’s cocaine on steroids. It’s touch deprivation, so you don’t need to go to your spouse or your significant other for that connection, which is paramount to cultivating relationships.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been.

5. Sonia Ancoli-Israel:

   Chronic sleep deprivation has lots of negative consequences.