Oppression vs Underprivileged - What's the difference?
oppression | underprivileged |
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
A feeling of being oppressed.
*, chapter=7
, title= A deprived person; deprived people.
As nouns the difference between oppression and underprivileged
is that oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner while underprivileged is a deprived person; deprived people.As an adjective underprivileged is
deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others.oppression
English
Noun
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
