plural latencies
Definition of latency
2
: something latent
writers who know how to evoke these latencies— E. C. Lindeman
3
: a stage of psychosexual (see psychosexual sense 1) development following the phallic (see phallic sense 3) stage that extends from about the age of five or six to the beginning of puberty and during which sexual urges often appear to lie dormant
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The first known use of latency was in 1615
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