deprivation

Noun

• act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
  • nutritional privation
    
  • deprivation of civil rights
    

• the disadvantage that results from losing something
  • his loss of credibility led to his resignation
    
  • losing him is no great deprivation
    

• a state of extreme poverty

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  privation , loss , want , neediness