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LATENCY PERIOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 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
Synonyms:
latency period; latency phase; latency stage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("latency period" is a kind of...):
phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)
Domain category:
analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)
Holonyms ("latency period" is a part of...):
childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)
