liddeficit

/ˈlɪdˌdɛfɪsɪt/nounVerified New

The permanent shortage of container lids relative to containers in any kitchen.

Every cupboard holds a nest of boxes and a loose stack of lids that match nothing at the needed moment. The liddeficit is conserved — matching a lid to a box immediately unmatches another. Physicists would call it a symmetry problem; households call it Thursday.

Etym. — lid + deficit — a structural shortfall, not a lost item: the system produces it.

Rel. — bagmatryoshka

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