Lacuna and Missing

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Lacuna noun - A falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number.

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Missing and lacuna are semantically related in space topic. In some cases you can use "Missing" instead a noun "Lacuna".

Missing adjective - No longer possessed.

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Lacuna and missing are semantically related in space topic. Sometimes you can use "Lacuna" instead a noun "Missing".

Nearby Words: miss, mission, missed

I Kiss Your Hand/I Kiss Your Foot: Jesus to Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Philip, but where he kissed her is missing in the lacuna where just the location is missing and the rest of the text before and after it is intact.

Source: Useful Notes / Gnosticism
Volsunga Saga quotes 4 stanzas from the Lacuna verbatim; still, its estimated that a good 200 stanzas are missing.

Source: Literature / Poetic Edda
Whats more, eight leaves from the middle of the heroic cycle have been ripped out by an unknown rascal between the 13th and the 17th century; the resulting gaping hole has been dubbed the "Great Lacuna"note A "lacuna" is a missing or unreadable section in a manuscript.

Source: Literature / Poetic Edda

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