lacuna - noun | luh-Koo-nuh

A formal word meaning a gap or a space in something, like something’s missing.

Her mother’s lack of tenderness towards her in her formative years left a notable lacuna in her emotional palette.

Lacunas everywhere dawg. Lacunas kinda the reason that we exist, right? Plugging holes, solving problems. It’s like humans are so biologically hard-wired to solve problems and fill gaps that we’ll create them out of thin air to satiate that hunger. I think that’s where art becomes the most important, to crystalize that feeling of lack and put something out there to temper it a little.