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latent
[ leyt-nt ]
adjective
- present but not visible, apparent, or activated; existing as potential:
latent ability.
- Pathology. (of an infectious agent or disease) in a phase of being hidden or unrecognized; not yet exhibiting symptoms. Compare dormant ( def 4 ).
- Psychology. existing in unconscious or dormant form but potentially able to achieve expression:
latent learning,
a latent emotion.
- Botany. (of buds that are not externally manifest) dormant or undeveloped.
latent
/ ˈleɪtənt /
adjective
- potential but not obvious or explicit
- (of buds, spores, etc) dormant
- pathol (esp of an infectious disease) not yet revealed or manifest
- (of a virus) inactive in the host cell, its nucleic acid being integrated into, and replicated with, the host cell's DNA
- psychoanal relating to that part of a dream expressive of repressed desires Compare manifest
latent content
Derived Forms
- ˈlatently, adverb
- ˈlatency, noun
Other Words From
- la·tent·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of latent1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
But a recent trend is capitalizing on our latent desires to actually become the famous people we love and love to hate.
So it carbonates all of these, I'd say latent desires, to have more meaning in his life.
Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them.
It was more science faction, a monument to human potential—including the latent potential for self-destruction.
But the "Zoabiz" was a small reminder that latent chauvinism is alive and well.
Now listen to me, said the dying woman, aloud, as if making a great effort to revive one latent spark of energy.
That high-pressure engines owed their advantages mainly to a reduction of the relative importance of this latent heat.
In descending it is recondensed, and by the process by which its atoms are brought together its latent heat is made sensible.
Again she felt that everlasting calm, arguing such latent forces, was the thing she hated most in him.
But it possessed a latent purchasing power such as probably no other Government in history ever had.
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