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Deprivation vs Starvation - What's the difference?

deprivation | starvation |

As nouns the difference between deprivation and starvation

is that deprivation is (countable) the act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity while starvation is a condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.

deprivation

English

Noun

  • (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
  • (uncountable) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
  • (countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
  • lack
    • He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.

    Usage notes

    * Distinguish from (l).

    starvation

    English

    (wikipedia starvation)

    Noun

  • a condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
    • "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"