Priv·a·tive, n.
 1. That of which the essence is the absence of something.
    Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives.   --Bacon.
 2. Logic A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
 3. Gram. A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.
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