latency
/ˈleɪ.tən.si/ · noun
Meaning
- The state of being latent.
- A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
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