privation

lack

Deficiency or absence

• wantTo desire something
• absenceState of not being
• deficiencyLack of something needed

insufficiency · dearth · paucity · scarcity · shortage · deficit · void · inadequacy · meagerness · sparsity

adversity

Severe difficulty or suffering

• struggleLabored effort against resistance
• sufferingSustained experience of distress
• miseryIntense prolonged distress

distress · affliction · tribulation · ordeal · difficulty · burden · woe · endurance · survival · resilience

starvation

Extreme nutritional deprivation

• malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
• famineSevere food shortage
• undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake

emaciation · wasting · thirst · fasting · drought · subsistence · rationing · scarcity · want · neediness

bereavement

State following loss

• dispossessionDeprival of property rights
• confiscationSeizure by authority
• seizureForcible taking or convulsion

forfeiture · expropriation · divestiture · removal · withdrawal · denial · stripping · relinquishment · sacrifice · renunciation

abstinence

Voluntary forgoing of indulgences

• austerityEnforced economic stringency
• self-denialRestraining one's own desires
• renunciationFormal surrender of claim

monasticism · simplicity · frugality · temperance · mortification · spartan · fasting · celibacy · abnegation · discipline

• povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
• deprivationlack, need, want, shortage, deficiency
• frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, penny-pinching, economize
• hardshiphardship, adversity, difficulty, trouble, struggle
• asceticismabstinence, celibacy, ascetic, austerities, chastity
• rigourshardship, suffering, adversity, tribulation, harsh conditions