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by almog 1477 days ago
> I believe the academic category for these is "lexical gap"

Lexical gap refers to potential words that, with regards to the language morphology or semantic rules, could have been part of the language.

I think it's systematic gap that might apply to some of the domains you're squatting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_gap