lacuna

Examples

• All

• There's obviously a lacuna; such is the carelessness of its editors.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Archaeologists require other avenues to address this lacuna and redirect focus to the experiential contexts of ritual practice.

  Academic text (2017)

• Feminist students, scholars, and the community as a whole suffer this lacuna.

  Academic text (2005)

• The intent of the papal letter was to address a legislative lacuna.

  Academic text (2002)

• We address this lacuna by considering the information requirements associated with environmentally focused AIS.

  Academic text (2005)

• In other words, his explanation for the embarrassing historical lacuna was a massive cover-up, but he offered no proof to substantiate this charge.

  Academic text (2017)

• Chapter 14 also has a lacuna, and the first mention of Björn's wife comes in chapter 24.

  Academic text (1997)

• The petition sent by organized pesticide workers to the president also exposes another lacuna in many pesticide studies.

  Academic text (2002)

• The present moment in theological scholarship manifests a certain pressure to remedy this lacuna.

  Academic text (2007)

• In view of these endemic problems, the demise of Hamilton's interlinear books leaves an untimely lacuna in our educational system.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

B

blank

vslacuna

103 1.7

An empty space between words or lines in writing

is a missing portion or gap rather than a deliberately empty space

B

blank space

vslacuna

3 1.6

An empty area for writing or filling in information

is an unintended content gap rather than a space left to fill

H

hiatus

vslacuna

1 7.2

A missing part of a text that shows lost pages or lines

is an absence in content rather than a temporary break

Antonyms

F

fullness

7 2.7

A state in which something has as much inside as it can hold

C

completeness

7 4.2

The state of having everything needed

Surface Forms

Etymology