Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun latency_period

1 sense of latency period

Sense 1
latency stage, latency phase, latency period -- ((psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities)
       => phase, stage -- (any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected")