privation

英 [praɪ'veɪʃ(ə)n] 美[praɪ'veʃən]

• n. 贫困；丧失；被剥夺了某物的状态

1. a state of extreme poverty

2. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights;

"nutritional privation"

"deprivation of civil rights"