deprivation

Plural: deprivations

Noun

• a state of extreme poverty
• the disadvantage that results from losing something
  • "losing him is no great deprivation"
• act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
  • "deprivation of civil rights"
• The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
• The state of being deprived
• The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
• lack

Examples

• He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.

Synonyms

loss, neediness, privation, want, bereavement