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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 activitiesplay

  Familiarity information: LATENCY STAGE used as a noun is very rare.


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LATENCY STAGE (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

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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