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Privation

Definition: Privation

Privation

Noun

1. A state of extreme poverty.

2. Act of depriving.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "privation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Privation \Pri*va"tion\, noun. [Latin expression privatio: compare to the French expression privation. See Private.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Privation

Synonyms: deprivation (n), want (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Privation

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Loss

Privation, bereavement; deprivation; (dispossession); riddance; damage, squandering, waste.

Poverty

Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Privation

English words defined with "privation": ApnoeaDefraudment, DisanimationExsanguinityMortlingOrbationPrivativeTo be at a lossUn-. (references)
Specialty definitions using "privation": lossorphanquailstail. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Privation" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (absence, bereavement, deficiency, deprival, deprivation, derequisition, lack, privation, shortage, shortcoming).

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Commercial Usage: Privation

DomainTitle

Books

  • Daughters of Dakota: Schooled in Privation (South Dakota Pioneer Daughters Collection ; Vol. Iv) (reference)

  • La déchéance de la puissance paternelle et la privation du droit de garde (reference)

  • L'arc-en-soi : essai sur les sentiments de privation et de plénitude (reference)

  • Porneia : de la maîtrise du corps à la privation sensorielle, IIe-IVe siècles de l'ère chrétienne (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Privation

AuthorQuotation

Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Privation

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those conditions is urgently required: as, for example, by the regulation of the hours of work, including the establishment of a maximum working day and week, the regulation of the labour supply, the prevention of unemployment, the provision of an adequate living wage, the protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment, the protection of children, young persons and women, provision for old age and injury, protection of the interests of workers when employed in countries other than their own recognition of the principle of freedom of association, the organisation of vocational and technical education and other measures; Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries; The HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following: CHAPTER l. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

I have not yet spoken of poverty and privation which are in many cases the prevailing anxiety. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Privation

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Few know how much certain feeble beings, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can extract from a sou.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Privation

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Nigeria

Currently, the Bureau of Public Enterprise, the government agency responsible for Nigeria's privation program, has advertised and called for an expression of interest from local and international firms wishing to participate in NITEL's privatization. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

On March 13, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Alberto Linares Perez filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against Minister of Defense, Eduardo Arevalo Lacs, Army Chief of Staff, Lionel Mendez Estrada, and Army Inspector General, Carlos Eddi Radford Bonilla for abuse of power, privation of liberty, unwarranted discharge, and cover up of corruption. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Privation

"Privation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Privation" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4153,521

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Privation

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

privation

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Privation

Language Translations for "privation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

privim, sakrificë (immolation, oblation, obsecration, offering, sacrifice, sin offering), mungesa, humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, wastage, waste), heqje (abolition, clearing, collection, deduction, Defeasance, deletion, deprivation, derogation, dismissal, dismission, disposal, dispossession, ejection, elimination, evacuation, excision, extirpation, extraction, jump, omission, out, outage, recall, relegation, removal, rending, resection, reserve, skip, stripping, subtraction, tripping). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فقدان (absence, bereavement, deprivation, destitution, forfeit, forfeiture, lack, loss, nonexistence), ‏فاقة (need), ‏حرمان (confiscation, deprivation, excommunication), ‏عوز (destitution, distress, indigence, lack, misery, necessity, need, paucity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, want), ‏عدم وجود (default, lack), ‏إمتناع (abstention, omission). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нужда (call, destitution, distress, hardship, necessary, necessity, need, pinch, requirement, use, want), недостиг (deficit, famine, insufficiency, lack, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, ullage, want), лишение (pinch, want), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failure, lack, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage, want). (various references)

   

Czech

  

strádání (affliction, deprivation, destitution, hardship), nouze (deprivation, destitution, distress, indigence, necessities, need, needs, pinch, poverty, scarcity, want), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

محرومیت (Proscription, Reprobate), محروم سازی (Exclusion, Ouster), تعلیق مقام , سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence). (various references)

   

French

  

privation. (various references)

   

German

  

mangel (absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, paucity, penury, poverty, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακουχία (hardship), στέρηση (bereavement, deprivation, forfeiture, hardship, lack). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שליל" (denial, deprivation, fault, negation, prevention, refusal), עו י (indigence, meanness, misery, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, want). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szűkölködés (destitution, need, want, wantingness), nyomor (destitution, extremity, misery, necessity, penury, poverty, squalor, want), megfosztás (deprivation, despoliation, dispossession, divestiture, eviction, stripping). (various references)

   

Italian

  

privazione (bereavement, deprival, deprivation, divestiture, hardship, loss, suffering). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

辛酸 (hardships), (deficiency, lack). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し"さ" (hardships, intention), ""く (hardship), けつじょ (deficiency, lack, lusting), とうたい, とう い (head of the family, lighthouse, passing the examination, the present age, these days, Tokyo University). (various references)

   

Manx

  

uail (disservice, fine, injury, penalty, ruination). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivationpray

   

Portuguese

  

privação (bereavement, deprivation, divestment, miss), perda (bereavement, confusion, damage, deprivation, forfeit, forfeiture, leakage, misbirth, miscarriage, miss, offscourings, perdition, prejudice, ruination, seepage, undoing, wastage, waste, wreck), miséria (affliction, distress, misery, penurity, penury, poverty, sorriness, squalor, want), falta (absence, default, deficiency, fail, failing, fault, forfeit, foul, guilt, lack, lacuna, miss, mistake, need, non-attendance, omission, paucity, penurity, penury, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, slip, want, wantage), ausência (absence, default, negation, non-attendance, want). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

privaţiune (deprivation, hardship), sãrãcie (baldness, barrenness, dearth, destitution, impecuniosity, indigence, meanness, misery, necessity, neediness, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, sterility, stringency, want), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), inexistenţã (absence, nonentity, non-existence, nothingness), absenţã (absence, default, poverty, shortage, wanting). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лишение (deprivation, destitution, divestiture, hardship). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oskudica (dearth, destitution, lack, necessity, need, penury, scarceness, scarcity, want, wantage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

privación (abridgement, abridgment, confinement, confiscation, deprivation, detraction, hardship), miseria (beggary, destitution, distress, indignity, misery, peanuts, penury, pittance, powerty, squalor, want, wretchedness), apuro (difficulty, extremity, hardship, hole, hurry, jam, need, pinch, plight, predicament, push, quandary, trouble). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

umbärande (hardship), försakelse (deprivation, self denial, selfdenial). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yoksunluk (deficiency, defraudation, deprivation, lack), yoksulluk (bareness, calamity, destitution, hardship, misery, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty), yokluk (absence, absentness, dearth, exiguity, failure, famine, hardship, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, penury, poverty, shortage, Strait, straits, tightness, want), mahrumiyet (deprivation, destitution), ihtiyaç (call, demand, deprivation, desideratum, exigence, exigency, necessity, need, pinch, requirement, want). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відсутність (absence, destitution, discontinuity, non-availability, nothing, want), нужда (destitution, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, want), злидні (beggarhood, beggarliness, beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, misery, need, neediness, penury). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tình trạng thiếu (incompleteness, incompletion), tình trạng không có sự thiếu thốn, cảnh thiếu thốn (destitution, penury). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

amddifedi (destitution), amddifadrwydd (destitution). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Privation

Derivations

Words beginning with "privation": privations. (additional references)

Words ending with "privation": deprivation. (additional references)

Words containing "privation": deprivations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Privation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pravation, prication, privaten, procation, provarian, provation, revation. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Privation"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "privation" (pronounced prīvā"shun)
5-v ā" sh u nactivation, aggravation, conservation, cultivation, depravation, deprivation, derivation, elevation, excavation, inactivation, innovation, motivation, observation, ovation, preservation, renovation, reservation, salvation, starvation.
4-ā" sh u nabbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depreciation, depredation, deregulation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, pressurization, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, toleration, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization.
3-sh u nabduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Privation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-v"

-2 letters: atropin, vitrain.

-3 letters: aroint, parton, patron, pavior, rapini, ration, tarpon, trivia, tropin, viator, virion.

-4 letters: aport, apron, atrip, avion, inapt, intro, invar, nitro, noria, orpin, paint, panto, parvo, patin, patio, pavin, piano, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, pivot, point, print, prion, ratio, ravin, riant, tapir, torii, train, trona, vapor.

-5 letters: airn, airt, anti, arvo, atop.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: privations, provitamin.

 

+2 letters: deprivation, inoperative, provitamins.

 

+3 letters: deprivations, providential, vaporization, vibraphonist, vituperation.

 

+4 letters: improvisation, incorporative, interpolative, prevarication, privatization, provincialist, provinciality, pulverization, vaporizations, vibraphonists, vituperations.

 

+5 letters: contrapositive, improvisations, interoperative, prevarications, privatizations, providentially, provincialists, pulverizations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Privation


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 69 76 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-.    ..    ...-    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0069 0076 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508475886786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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