accidental gap
English
Noun
accidental gap (plural accidental gaps)
- (linguistics) A potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite that it would be permissible by the grammatical rules of that language; its absence is therefore an accidental gap, in the ontologic sense of the word accidental (that is, circumstantial rather than essential).
Hypernyms
- gap
- lacuna
Synonyms
- lexical gap