Definition of: privation

(prī·vā′shən) noun
1. The state of lacking something necessary or desirable; especially, want of the common comforts of life.
2. Deprivation.
3. Logic The absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to objects of that kind.
4. Eccl. Suspension or degradation from office, as of a priest. See synonyms under LOSS, POVERTY, WANT. [<OF <L privatio, -onis <privare. See PRIVATE.]