privations
Lack of necessities
Privations are conditions of severe hardship or deprivation, typically involving the lack of basic necessities like food, shelter, or comfort.
The word usually appears in plural form and carries a sense of endured suffering rather than mere inconvenience.
The soldiers faced terrible privations during the long winter campaign.
Privations often implies dignity in hardship—something suffered rather than simply experienced.
Deficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- lackDeficiency or absence
- deficitAmount still owed
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
paucity · want · famine · drought · undersupply · meagerness · sparsity · rarity
Disease from dietary inadequacy
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- emaciationExtreme bodily thinness
- neglectFailure to provide care
impoverishment · squalor · destitution · poverty · penury · indigence · beggary · pauperism
Sustained experience of distress
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
affliction · tribulation · ordeal · trial · woe · anguish · travail · difficulty
Economical resource management
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
monasticism · spartanism · stoicism · self-discipline · restraint · simplicity · minimalism · renunciation
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
insufficiency · paucity · want · famine · drought · undersupply · meagerness · sparsity · rarity · inadequacy
malnutrition
Disease from dietary inadequacy
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- emaciationExtreme bodily thinness
neglect · impoverishment · squalor · destitution · poverty · penury · indigence · beggary · pauperism · dispossession
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
struggle · affliction · tribulation · ordeal · trial · woe · anguish · travail · difficulty · burden
frugality
Economical resource management
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
temperance · monasticism · spartanism · stoicism · self-discipline · restraint · simplicity · minimalism · renunciation · mortification
privationsabundances
States of plentifulness
plenty · prosperity · wealth · affluence · riches
privationscomforts
Eases distress; pleasures
luxuries · indulgences · ease · pleasures · gratifications