Latency
Latency
#526. Latency. Implication. -- N. {ant. 525} latency,
inexpression[obs]; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery,
cabala[obs], anagoge[obs]; silence &c. (taciturnity) 585; concealment &c.
528; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le
dessous des cartes[Fr], undercurrent.
- implication, logical implication; logical consequence; entailment.
- allusion, insinuation; innuendo &c. 527; adumbration; "something
rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet].
- snake in the grass &c. (pitfall) 667; secret &c. 533.
- darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.
- V. be latent &c. adj.; lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape
observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid &c. 528.
- laugh in one's sleeve; keep back &c. (conceal) 528.
- involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference;
entail; whisper &c. (conceal) 528.
- [understand the implication] read between the lines.
- Adj. latent; lurking &c. v.; secret &c. 528; occult; implied &c. v.;
dormant; abeyant.
- unapparent, unknown, unseen &c. 441; in the background; invisible &c.
447; indiscoverable[obs], dark; impenetrable &c. (unintelligible) 519;
unspied[obs], unsuspected.
- unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed[obs], untalked of[obs],
untold &c. 527, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed[obs], undisclosed &c. 529,
unexpressed; not expressed, tacit.
- undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced[obs], undiscovered &c.
480a, untracked, unexplored, uninvented[obs].
- indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication;
implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic[obs];
understood, underhand, underground; delitescent[obs], concealed &c. 528.
- Adv. by a side wind; sub silentio[Lat]; in the background; behind the
scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly &c. 528;
between the lines.
- Phr. "thereby hangs a tale" [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub
pectore vulnus [Lat][Vergil]; where there's smoke, there's fire.