latency

And thus it is that every Idealist, bleak and wintry as his mood may be, is conscious of the latency of spring.

Otherwise, in place of remaining in latency, they would assert themselves like men.

While those other mothers, by retaining such in latency, preserved them as a rich inheritance for male heirs.

The repression during the period of latency is an inner obstacle of this kind—or rather one which has become inner.

In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.