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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (II) Communication of Ideas |
| Section II. Modes of Communication |
| 526. Latency. |
| NOUN: | LATENCY, inexpression; hidden -, occult- meaning; obscurity (unintelligibility) [See Unintelligibility]; occultness, mystery, cabala or cabbala, cabalism, occultism, mysticism, symbolism, anagoge; silence (taciturnity) [See Taciturnity]; concealment [See Concealment]; more than meets the -eye, - ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes [F.], undercurrent; “something rotten in the state of Denmark” [Hamlet]. snake in the grass (pitfall) [See Pitfall]; secret [See Secret]. darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility. ALLUSION, insinuation, inference, implication; innuendo [See Information]; adumbration. LATENT INFLUENCE, invisible government, power behind the throne, friend at court, wire-puller [colloq.], king-maker; “a destiny that shapes our ends” [Hamlet]. |
| VERB: | BE LATENT &c. adj.; lurk, smolder or smoulder, underlie, make no sign; escape -observation, - detection, - recognition; lie hid [See Concealment]. laugh in one’s sleeve; keep back (conceal) [See Concealment]. INVOLVE, imply, implicate, connote, import, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; mysticize [rare], symbolize; whisper (conceal) [See Concealment]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | LATENT; lurking &c. v.; secret, occult, anagogic or anagogical, cabalistic or cabalistical, symbolic, esoteric, recondite, veiled, symbolic, cryptic or cryptical; mystic, mystical; implied &c. v.; dormant; abeyant. unapparent, unknown, unseen [See Vision]; in the background; invisible [See Invisibility]; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable (unintelligible) [See Unintelligibility]; unspied, unsuspected. undeveloped, unsolved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered [See Judgment]untracked, unexplored, uninvented. UNEXPRESSED, unmentioned, unpronounced, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold [See Information], unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed [See Disclosure], not expressed, tacit. INDIRECT, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; concealed; under cover [See Concealment]; delitescent. |
| ADVERB: | SECRETLY [See Concealment]; by a side wind; sub silentio [L.]; in the background; behind the scenes, behind one’s back; on the tip of one’s tongue; between the lines; by a mutual understanding; sub rosa [L.]; below the surface. |
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