Synonyms for latent
ˈleɪt ntla·tent

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1. latentadjective

   Synonyms:
   dormant

   Antonyms:
   patent

2. latentadjective

   Existing or present but concealed or inactive.

   Synonyms:
   dormant

   Antonyms:
   patent

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1. latent

   Synonyms:
   concealed, covert, dark, hidden, impalpable, impenetrable, imperceptible, invisible, obscure, occult, secret, undiscovered, unimagined, unknown, unseen, unthought-of

   Antonyms:
   apparent, clear, conspicuous, discernible, distinct, evident, glaring, indubitable, manifest, obvious, open, overt, palpable, patent, perceptible, plain, tangible, transparent, unmistakable, visible

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1. latent

   Synonyms:
   invisible, inapparent, unobserved, hidden, concealed, undeveloped, implicit, potential, inherent, secret, occult

   Antonyms:
   visible, apparent, manifest, conspicuous, exposed, unconcealed, attentive, developed, explicit

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1. latentadjective

   potentially existing but not presently evident or realized

   "a latent fingerprint"; "latent talent"

   Antonyms:
   active, existent, actual

2. latentadjective

   (pathology) not presently active

   "latent infection"; "latent diabetes"

   Antonyms:
   existent, active, actual

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1. • Pathology

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1. delitescent

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. latentadjective

   Synonyms:
   concealed, hidden, secret, occult, veiled, unseen

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1. latentadjective

   Synonyms:
   concealed, dormant, undeveloped, hidden

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1. List of paraphrases for "latent":

   unrealised, dormant, latency, lag, smouldering, unobservable, unobserved, unrealized, frozen, hidden, potential

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1. Schopenhauer:

   What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

2. Angela Civitella:

   It's just latent or hidden anger issues that people have, it's usually expressions that are masked. They can't come out about what they are angry about.

3. John Adams:

   Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

4. Joanna Cound:

   We started to make prices, not just to take prices, in an attempt to uncover more latent liquidity.

5. Lord Acton:

   It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.