LATENCY STAGE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities
   Synonym(s)
   • latency period (what does latency period mean?)
   • latency phase (what does latency phase mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) latency stage is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • phase (what does phase mean?)
   • stage (what does stage mean?)