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lacuna
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of LACUNA
1
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number <attributes many of the nation's problems to a lacuna of leadership at the top>
Synonyms crunch, dearth, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
2
an incomplete or deficient area <a lacuna in its collection of Impressionists that the museum is trying to fill>
Related Words defectiveness, detriment, disability, failing, fault, impairment, weakness; deficiency, deficit, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, need, shortcoming, shortfall, want
Near Antonyms completeness, fullness
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