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Synonyms & Antonyms of lacuna
- attributes many of the nation's problems to a lacuna of leadership at the top
Synonyms for lacuna
- crunch,
- dearth,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- drought
- (also drouth),
- failure,
- famine,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- insufficiency,
- lack,
- paucity,
- pinch,
- poverty,
- scantiness,
- scarceness,
- scarcity,
- shortage,
- undersupply,
- want
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- a lacuna in its collection of Impressionists that the museum is trying to fill
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The first known use of lacuna was in 1652
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