latency. implication

Roget category 526

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.9. Modes of communication
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#526. Latency. Implication

noun

latency, inexpression^† — hidden meaning, occult meaning — occultness, mystery, cabala^†, anagoge^† — silence etc. (taciturnity) 585 — concealment etc. 528 — more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear — Delphic oracle — le dessous des cartes [Fr.], undercurrent.
implication, logical implication — logical consequence — entailment.
allusion, insinuation — innuendo etc. 527 — adumbration — something rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet]. snake in the grass etc. (pitfall) 667 — secret etc. 533.
darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.

verb

be latent etc. adj. — lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign — escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition — lie hid etc. 528.
laugh in one's sleeve — keep back etc. (conceal) 528.
involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference — entail — whisper etc. (conceal) 528.
[understand the implication] read between the lines.

adjective

latent — lurking etc. v. — secret etc. 528 — occult — implied etc. v. — dormant — abeyant.
unapparent, unknown, unseen etc. 441 — in the background — invisible etc. 447 — indiscoverable^†, dark — impenetrable etc. (unintelligible) 519 — unspied^†, unsuspected.
unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed^†, untalked of^†, untold etc. 527, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed^†, undisclosed etc. 529, unexpressed — not expressed, tacit.
undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced^†, undiscovered etc. 480.1, untracked, unexplored, uninvented^†.
indirect, crooked, inferential — by inference, by implication — implicit — constructive — allusive, covert, muffled — steganographic^† — understood, underhand, underground — delitescent^†, concealed etc. 528.

adverb

by a side wind — sub silentio [Lat.] — in the background — behind the scenes, behind one's back — on the tip of one's tongue — secretly etc. 528 — between the lines.

phrase

thereby hangs a tale" [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus [Lat.] [Vergil]; where there's smoke, there's fire.

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