lacuna

lacuna

noun

Definition 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

Related Words absence, omission; meagerness, poorness, skimpiness; necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms bountifulness, copiousness; excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

Antonyms abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth

2

an incomplete or deficient area <a lacuna in its collection of Impressionists that the museum is trying to fill>

Synonyms hiatus, hole, lacuna, space, void

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