PRIVATIONS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

privations

noun

plural of privation

as in deprivations

the state of being robbed of something normally enjoyed the constant privation of sleep was starting to affect my work

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Recent Examples of privations Yamal has spoken about being recognised on the street at 13, the privations of fame accrued before puberty. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 July 2026 Meanwhile, the European settlers, underprepared for actual conditions in the region, suffered great privations, and only 1,500 remained by 1832. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026 Diaries kept by Eugenia Zieber describe the privations of the trail, chief among them the frequent deaths of fellow travelers. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025 At seventy, Padura is a voice of a generation that endured a long war in Angola and the privations that followed the Soviet collapse. — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 Since 2022, Russia repeatedly urged China to act quickly to save its economy from inevitable privations stemming from the collapse of its Western market. — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 In light of the extraordinary privations and mass killing of Gaza’s civilian population in the current war, Hamas’s external leader, Khaled Meshaal, has likened Gaza to Algeria, where independence was achieved only after the death of more than a million civilians. — Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025 Laos, like almost all the countries in what was once Indochina—the fecund area of Southeast Asia controlled (minus Thailand) by the British or French for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries—has endured terrible privations and suffered a particularly brutal recent history. — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2018

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Although Lange captured Florence Owens Thompson on one of her hardest days, one of Thompson’s daughters described her mother as someone who loved her family and found joy even among the deprivations of the Great Depression.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
Loyal’s drug is designed to trigger some of the same effects, without a dog having to face any of the deprivations experienced by GLP-1 users or the Labradors in the Purina study.

— Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026

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