say it: deh-pruh-VAY-shuhn
deprivation is a noun meaning "a state of extreme poverty". It carries 3 recorded senses.
act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
“nutritional privation”
“deprivation of civil rights”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deprivation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.