latent

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1. latent - Noun

2. latent - Adjective

3. latent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.

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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. Northrop Frye

Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect. Giordano Bruno

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone. Henry James

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power. John Mearsheimer

There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect. John Muir

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated. Norman Vincent Peale

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