Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]
   1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act
      of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

   2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want;
      bereavement.

   3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice,
      or other spiritual promotion or dignity.

   Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first
         takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes
         from the order.

Source : WordNet®

deprivation
     n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {want}]
     2: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his
        loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him
        is no great deprivation" [syn: {loss}]
     3: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights;
        "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
        [syn: {privation}]