Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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  UNEXPRESSED, unmentioned, unpronounced, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold [See Information], unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed [See Disclosure], not expressed, tacit.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.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Thereby hangs a tale.—As You Like It
2. Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.—Vergil