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latent 1. (of buds, spores, etc.) dormant 2. Pathol (esp of an infectious disease) not yet revealed or manifest 3. (of a virus) inactive in the host cell, its nucleic acid being integrated into, and replicated with, the host cell's DNA 4. Psychoanal relating to that part of a dream expressive of repressed desires How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But the puzzle has a real difficulty latent under it, to which Socrates will endeavour to find a reply. Otherwise we shall be compelled to believe that all our knowledge, all our store of images and memories, all our mental habits, are at all times existing in some latent mental form, and are not merely aroused by the stimuli which lead to their display. He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom. |
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