Postrádání

Postrádání is a Czech noun meaning the state or act of lacking, absence, or deprivation of something. It derives from the verb postrádat and is used for both concrete deficits (postrádání peněz, postrádání potravin) and more abstract absences (postrádání důvěry, postrádání času). In a personal sense it can describe emotional longing for a person, for example postrádání blízké osoby.

The word is formed with the suffix -ání from the verb postrádat and is typically used with the genitive after it (postrádání něčeho). It is a neuter noun and appears in formal and semi-formal registers, including academic, legal, and policy-related writing, as well as in elevated or careful prose.

In usage, postrádání conveys a neutral description of lack or deprivation, contrasting with terms that emphasize insufficiency or loss. Related terms include nedostatek (shortage or lack of quantity), absence (chybění), and ztráta (loss of something previously possessed). The concept is common in sociological and philosophical contexts when discussing deprivation, scarcity, or missing elements in systems, structures, or personal life. See also: absence, lack, deprivation.

See also: absence, lack, malnutrition (as a type of postrádání of resources), chybění, nedostatek. References are found in Czech dictionaries and linguistic descriptions of word formation from the verb postrádat.