latency

Main Entry:
latency [leyt-n-see]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abeyance
Synonyms: abeyancy, discontinuation, dormancy, inactivity, intermission, postponement, quiescence, recess, remission, suspension, temporarily deferred, waiting
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Latency. Implication.
Synonyms:
-nouns
latency, inexpression; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge; silence (taciturnity); concealment; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes, undercurrent., implication., allusion, insinuation; innuendo; adumbration; "something rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet]., snake in the grass (pitfall); secret., darkness, invisibility, imperceptility.
-verbs
be latent; lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid., laugh in one's sleeve; keep back (conceal)., involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; whisper (conceal).
-adjectives
latent; lurking; secret; occult; implied; dormant; abeyant., unapparent, unknown, unseen; in the background; invisible; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable (unintelligible); unspied, unsuspected., unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold [more], unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed [more], unexpressed; not expressed, tacit., undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered, untracked, unexplored, uninvented., indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; delitescent, concealed.
-adverbs
by a side wind; sub silentio; in the background; behind the scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly; between the lines.
-phrases
"thereby hangs a tale" [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus [Vergil].
Antonyms: manifestation
Browse Concept Index »
Main Entry: abeyance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: being inactive or suspended
Synonyms: discontinuation, dormancy, inactivity, intermission, latency, postponement, quiescence, recess, remission, suspension, temporarily deferred, waiting
Antonyms: action, activity, continuance, continuation, operation, renewal, revival
Main Entry: intermission
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, recess
Synonyms: abeyance, abeyancy, break-off, breather, breathing spell, cessation, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, interim, interlude, interregnum, interruption, interval, latency, layoff, let-up, lull, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, quiescency, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, time, time-out, wait
Main Entry: interruption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break; interference
Synonyms: abeyance, abeyancy, arrest, blackout, breach, break-off, cessation, check, cutoff, delay, disconnection, discontinuance, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, disuniting, division, doldrums, dormancy, gap, halt, hiatus, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interim, intermission, interval, intrusion, lacuna, latency, layoff, letup, obstacle, obstruction, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, rift, rupture, separation, severance, split, stop, stoppage, suspension
Antonyms: continuation
Main Entry: presence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: occupancy, attendance
Synonyms: being, companionship, company, existence, habitation, inhabitance, latency, occupation, omnipresence, potentiality, residence, subsistence, ubiety, ubiquity, whereabouts
Antonyms: absence
Main Entry: suspension
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: delay
Synonyms: abeyance, abeyancy, adjournment, break, breather, breathing spell, cessation, coffee break, concluding, conclusion, cutoff, deferment, disbarment, discontinuation, discontinuing, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, end, ending, finish, five, freeze, halt, heave-ho, intermission, interruption, latency, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, period, postponement, quiescence, quiescency, remission, respite, stay, stoppage, suspense, ten, termination, time-out
Antonyms: completion, continuation, finish, persistence
Main Entry: power broker
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person with power
Synonyms: fixer, hand that rocks the cradle, influence peddler, kingmaker, latency, logroller, power behind the throne, wire-puller
Main Entry: low profile
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance of attention
Synonyms: inconspicuousness, latency, low key, low posture, low visibility, reluctance, reticence, secrecy, semivisibility
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