New vocabulary I learned today.
deprivation
- lack of something necessary
I feel a bit confused. Though It obviously relates to the verb, deprive, it simply means lack or shortage without a sense of being taken away or robbed.
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New vocabulary I learned today.
Deprivation - lack of something necessary.I feel a bit confused. Though It obviously relates to the verb, deprive, it simply means lack or shortage without a sense of being taken away or robbed.
Deprive is a verb.
Deprivation is a noun.
The English language has so many words in it.
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The subject of the verb "to deprive" does not have to be human, it can be circumstances. For instance:
"Tragedy deprived him of a happy childhood."
In this sentence "tragedy" is the subject.
If someone is "sleep deprived" it is not usually because a person is depriving them of sleep, but rather because their circumstances are depriving them of sleep.
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Deprivation means to continuously lack. The only thing that is important is that it implies continuously, for a lasting time, or over and over again. It can be necessary, useful, or even useless. It can be by happenstance, or forced by external or internal motives.
The amount of time or how many times is not important, you could use deprivation as an exaggeration, just know that it implies more than once or more than a moment.
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Thank you very much for the useful tips!
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You usually hear this used in the following expressions:
Sleep deprivation
Sensory deprivation
also emotional deprivation
It is used more in a formal, academic and medical context.
For example, in a health article about sleep, you will see a sentence such as, "Sleep deprivation can harm one's health."
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