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noun

Privative n.

That of which the essence is the absence of something. "Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives."

(Logic) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; called also privative term.

(Gram.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.

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Etymology of 'Privative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... with, the tube being bent round upon itself at its lower end; the reading is taken of the difference in the levels of the mercury in the two limbs. The "aneroid" barometer (from the Gr. [Greek: a-] privative, and [Greek: neros], wet) employs no liquid, but depends upon the changes in volume experienced by an exhausted metallic chamber under varying pressures. "Baroscopes" simply indicate variations in the atmospheric pressure, without supplying quantitative ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various