Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sensory_deprivation

1 sense of sensory deprivation

Sense 1
sensory deprivation -- (a form of psychological torture inflicted by depriving the victim of all sensory input)
       => torture, torturing -- (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession")