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latent
/ˈleɪtənt/
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What does latent mean?
adjective
- Existing or present, but concealed or inactive.
- Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
- Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
More meanings (4)
noun
- The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.
- An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor.
- Anything that is latent.
adjective
- (dated) Latently homosexual.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈleɪtənt/
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He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature’s requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
Yet its consequences were latent in every word that he and she exchanged, in every glance they instinctively turned from each other.
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The problem, therefore, in each case is to find the latent ability and interest and to regard no case as really hopeless.
Hence, the name, by which the latent power of these natural objects became known, was in strict harmony with the facts involved.