privative

Causing deprivation, lack, or loss.

Altering the meaning of a term from positive to negative.

A privative prefix or suffix, such as a-, non-, un-, or -less.

Causing privation or destitution.

Depending on or consisting in privation in the logical sense.

In grammar: Changing the sense of a word from positive to negative: as, a privative prefix; ἀ– or ἀν– privative.

Predicating negation: as, a privative word.

That which depends on, or of which the essence is, the absence of something else, as silence, which exists by the absence of sound.

In grammar: A prefix to a word which changes its signification and gives it a contrary sense, as un– in unwise, in– in inhuman, an– in anarchy, a– in achromatic.

A word which not only predicates negation of a quality in an object, but also involves the notion that the absent quality is naturally inherent in it, and is absent through loss or some other privative cause.