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LATENCY STAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does latency stage mean?
• LATENCY STAGE (noun)
The noun LATENCY STAGE has 1 sense:
1. (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities
Familiarity information: LATENCY STAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
latency period; latency phase; latency stage
Hypernyms ("latency stage" 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 stage" is a part of...):
childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)
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