accidental gap

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Noun

accidental gap (plural accidental gaps)

  1. (linguistics) A potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite the fact that it would be permissible by the grammatical rules of that language.
    Synonym: lexical gap
    Hypernyms: gap, lacuna

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