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lacuna
luh-KOO-nuh/ləˈkuːnə//noun
01 / MEANING
A gap or missing part, especially in a text, record, or line of reasoning.
In a sentence.
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A lacuna in the manuscript left the ending uncertain.
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The proposal had a lacuna where the budget should have been.
Where it came from.
English borrowed lacuna from Latin lacūna, a pit, hollow, or gap. It is related to Latin lacus, ‘lake,’ and is a distant cousin of lagoon.
Explore the sourceWhy it’s interesting.
It can describe a literal hole in an old page or the missing idea that makes an argument incomplete.