Entbehrung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deprivation noun The state of lacking something necessary, such as food, sleep, or basic comfort.
- hardship noun A period of severe difficulty, suffering, or lack; hard times.
- privation noun The lack or loss of a quality that something used to have, or should properly have.
Senses
Entbehrung 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.
- privation (philosophy) The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
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