Privative /(?)/

Priv·a·tive

Privative

a.
  1. Causing privation; depriving.
  2. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
    Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.
  3. Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. ), un-, non-, -less. (Gram.)

Privative

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