Synonym: covered, hidden, underlying. Similar words: patent, late, tent, plate, later, relate, lately, threaten. Meaning: ['leɪtənt] adj. 1. potentially existing but not presently evident or realized 2. not presently active.
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31 Managers have been resistant, but there has been a strong latent demand for telework.
32 We can relate specific adult political attitudes and behavioral propensities to the manifest and latent political socialization experiences of childhood.
33 During the 1860s and 70s the populists attributed to the primitive peasant commune all the characteristics of a latent socialist order.
34 Learning is not always used as soon as it is acquired: Edward Tolman gave experimental evidence for this latent learning.
35 To question across the boundaries of the myth systems would, of course, involve aggression and getting in touch with the latent anger.
36 The Opposition was also anxious to embarrass the Government, and to trap it within its own latent inconsistencies.
37 My point was that they could power their way out of their problems with the latent potential among the workers.
38 Accordingly[sentencedict.com/latent.html], pre-exposure to the context can be expected to attenuate the extent to which latent inhibition will develop context-specificity.
39 Such Quantities are known as latent variables and they include human abilities and attitudes as well as collective characteristics of society such as business confidence.
40 It is on the contrary a very grave flaw, latent but pernicious in its effects.
41 Is this satisfying everyone's innate, latent, hopefully minimal blood lust?
42 The latent thought is the notion that Gloucester may be plotting to murder him - an idea too horrifying to contemplate.
43 Efforts must be directed to stimulating latent creative abilities of rural people.
44 If so, an equivalent effect can be expected in latent inhibition.
45 At any given point in time, however, such sites may offer latent potential to the developer.
46 Exposure to the AB compound itself will be much more likely to generate latent inhibition.
47 What the sociobiologists have identified are some underlying relationships and latent forms of human behaviour.
48 It is often associated with obesity and may be latent for some years before diagnosis.
49 This method is highly effective in detecting transformations while still in their latent stage; that is, before they become clinically observable.
50 Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters.
51 People who ate hamburgers and steak in the period may be harboring the seeds of a latent and slow-developing brain infection.
52 Yet coupled with their loyalty these dogs are likely to have a latent hint of aggression in their natures.
53 It is associated with low morale, latent conflict or frustration at work.
54 A desire to remind Rome of its arrogance remained latent in the Celtic underground.
55 There is some doubt as to whether a latent inhibitor can produce this effect.
56 Other theories of latent inhibition have taken a quite different view of the phenomenon.
57 One is that latent inhibition should not be interpreted as being the result of a loss of stimulus associability.
58 Yet anyone who wishes to understand the latent determinants of human behaviour would be unwise to reject this excuse as totally false.
59 One has to bring into existence a latent power capable of doing this.
60 Rather, it is treated as evidence of latent power, which serves as a constraint on management freedom of action.
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