la•ten•cy pe•ri•od
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latency period - (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities | ||
latency stage, latency phase | ||
phase, stage (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon" | ||
childhood the state of a child between infancy and adolescence |