Oxford English Thesaurus
Oxford English Thesaurus
- Instinct
- Hunch
noun
1 - he works according to intuition. INSTINCT, intuitiveness; sixth sense, divination, clairvoyance, second sight, ESP (extrasensory perception). ANTONYMS intellect.
2 - this confirms an intuition I had. HUNCH, feeling, feeling in one's bones, gut feeling, funny feeling, inkling, sneaking suspicion, suspicion, impression; premonition, presentiment, foreboding; Buddhism satori; informal feeling in one's water.”
Oxford Dictionary of English
latent | 'leit(a)nt |
adjective
(of a quality or state) existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden or concealed: they have a huge reserve of latent talent.
- Biology
- lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation: axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils are latent growth buds.*
- (of a disease) not yet manifesting the usual symptoms diabetes may be latent for some years before diagnosis | the latent stage of syphilis.
- Physiology
- (of a microorganism, especially a virus) present in the body without causing disease, but capable of doing so at a later stage, or when transmitted to another body.
DERIVATIVES
latently adverb
Origin
late Middle English: from Latin latent- 'being hidden', from the verb latere.