Word familyadjectivelacunallacunarylacunosenounlacunarlacuna
la·cu·na /ləˈkuːnə/ noun (plural lacunae /-niː/ or lacunas) [countableC] formal
TCNa place where something is missing in a piece of writing 〔文章中的〕脱漏,缺漏SYN gap
Examples from the Corpus
lacuna• What I wish to suggest is that filling the structural lacuna makes structured talk without higher-order thought look much less likely.• Let us call this the structural lacuna of the intentional scenario.
Originlacuna
(1600-1700)Latin“pool, hole in the ground, empty space”