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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 of lacuna

crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
Words Related to lacuna

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation
Near Antonyms of lacuna

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus
Antonyms of lacuna

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 of lacuna

gap, hiatus, hole, space, void
Words Related to lacuna

defectiveness, detriment, disability, failing, fault, impairment, weakness

deficiency, deficit, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, need, shortcoming, shortfall, want
Near Antonyms of lacuna

completeness, fullness

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