latencies

noun

1. 1

   The state of being latent.

2. 2

   A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

3. 3

   The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

4. 4

   A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.