latency stage

Definitions of latency stage
  1. noun
    (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities
    synonyms: latency period, latency phase
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    type of:
    phase, stage
    any distinct time period in a sequence of events
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