Deprivation
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Related to Deprivation: sensory deprivation, Sleep deprivation
Deprivation or deprive may refer to:
- Poverty, pronounced deprivation in well-being
- Objective deprivation or poverty threshold, the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country
- Relative deprivation, the lack of resources to sustain the lifestyle that one is accustomed to or that a society approves
- Deprivation (child development), inadequate meeting of child's needs required for an adequate child development; cf. child neglect
- Deprivation of rights under color of law, a federal criminal offense under U.S. law
- Deprivation, the taking away from a clergyman of his benefice or other spiritual promotion or dignity by an ecclesiastical court
See also
- All pages with titles containing Deprivation
- Forfeiture (law), deprivation of a right in consequence of the non-performance of some obligation
- Hypoxia (medical), a medical condition where the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level
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