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puutteenalaisuus — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deprivation noun The state of lacking something necessary, such as food, sleep, or basic comfort.
  • misery noun A state of deep unhappiness, suffering, or distress.
  • necessity noun The state of being required or unavoidable.

Senses

puutteenalaisuus is used for these senses in English:

  • deprivation (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
  • misery (Extreme) poverty.
  • necessity The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
  • necessity The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.

misery — full definition

  1. noun A state of deep unhappiness, suffering, or distress.
  2. noun Something that causes great unhappiness, such as hardship or poverty.
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